Trump Cancels Plans to Sign Housing Bill, in Latest Sign of Tension with his Party

The president canceled the signing as a table emblazoned with the presidential seal sat waiting in Statuary Hall for the ceremony.

Image: Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., watches as President Trump speaks to the media as they arrive at the Capitol on Wednesday. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

 

Sam Gringlas of NPR reports: “Roughly an hour before President Trump was set to sign bipartisan housing legislation Wednesday on Capitol Hill alongside the Republican leaders of both chambers, he imploded the plan in a social media post, denying his party a key affordability-focused win to promote ahead of the midterms.

Trump wrote in the post that he would not sign the legislation, which he called “of minor importance,” until Congress passed the strict voter ID law he has been pushing for months, the Save America Act…”

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