Overview
- President Trump canceled a planned signing and said he will withhold his signature on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act until Congress approves the SAVE America Act, and Speaker Mike Johnson said he will send the housing bill to the White House on Monday.
- The housing package cleared the House 358-32 and the Senate 85-5 and is designed to lower costs and expand homeownership, and under law it can become law if the president neither signs nor vetoes it within 10 days of receipt.
- The SAVE America Act would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in many cases, often a passport or birth certificate, which voting rights groups say tens of millions of Americans do not have ready access to.
- The SAVE Act lacks the 60 votes needed to overcome a Senate filibuster, Senate GOP leaders have resisted sweeping rule changes, and some House MAGA members are threatening to block floor business or push reconciliation to force consideration.
- Lawmakers and national media note sparse public evidence that the SAVE Act would prevent election outcomes, and Republicans warn the standoff could undercut the party’s affordability message and complicate campaign plans before the November midterms.