The president posted on social media that the signing was off until the Senate passes his election integrity bill. It is unclear whether he intends to kill the housing bill.
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President Donald Trump abruptly canceled an event to sign a bipartisan affordable-housing bill Wednesday, announcing the ceremony was off as he fumed about the Senate not passing his election integrity bill.
An hour and a half before he was due to sign the bill at the Capitol at noon, the president declared on social media that a news conference and signing ceremony was “hereby cancelled until such a time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency.”
Senate Republican leaders repeatedly have told Trump that the votes are not there to pass a law requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections, among other provisions. The House passed the bill earlier this year.
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Trump was due to meet privately with Republican senators in a lunch after the signing ceremony.
In response to questions about whether Trump would sign the housing bill privately, the White House responded with Trump’s Truth Social post.
Shortly before pulling out of the signing event, Trump posted online that the bill “is of minor importance,” calling it “The Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren centric housing bill.”
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This is a developing story and will be updated.
