Housing Act became Law

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law at midnight Saturday

without President Trump’s signature

Trump refused to sign the bipartisan legislation or veto it, letting the Constitution’s 10-day clock run out as a pointed protest against the Senate’s failure to pass his election-integrity priority, the SAVE America Act.

It was an unusual move. The housing bill cleared both chambers with overwhelming margins, 85-5 in the Senate and 358-32 in the House, and Trump’s own White House had previously championed it.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had called the legislation “one of the most significant pieces of housing affordability legislation in American history,” noting it included policies “long championed” by the president.

Then Trump pulled the plug on a Capitol signing ceremony, blindsiding at least one senior Republican who showed up unaware the event had been canceled. His reasoning was blunt and public. House Speaker Mike Johnson defended Trump’s approach, framing the unsigned bill as a strategic pressure play rather than a policy disagreement. Johnson told reporters:

“We’ll still celebrate it, but he’s trying to make a point, and I think he’s making it very effectively. And the fact that you all ask me every three steps down the hallway illustrates that he has achieved the desired objective, and that is to make SAVE America the number one thing, because if we don’t get that right, everybody’s concerned about what happens next.”

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