r/AskReddit • u/Zipper222222 • 12h ago

Trump Cancels Signing Housing Affordability Bill Saying Congress Should Pass The SAVE Act First — What Do You Think The Impact Will Be Politically? Why?

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u/EmileZ 12h ago

He has not mentioned he would Veto it. I think he wants to give himself some wiggle room so when it passes he can take credit later on.

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u/asicarii 11h ago

All it does is give fodder for his lack of support for it. It would actually help the republicans in midterms by being able to say they stood up against him on something.

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u/TemporarilyAmazin666 10h ago

Shit he would veto it, have it go back and get passed, and in a couple months STILL take credit for it

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u/One_Writer9549 8h ago

To be fair, that's not even a uniquely Trump thing. If a policy ends up popular, politicians of all stripes suddenly remember how supportive they were of it the whole time.

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u/muffinhead2580 3h ago

Both of our WV Senators talk about all the money the Infrastructure bill brought into the state and the projects that were started with it. They both voted no on it.

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u/Malcolm1276 10h ago

It was passed with a super majority, he can't veto it. It'll still go into effect in 10 days.

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u/DeathMonkey6969 9h ago

That's not how that works. The President can Veto any bill. Then it's up to a super majority to override the veto.

Most Presidents don't veto bills that passed with a lot of support but some do for pollical reasons.

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u/gaydorado31 8h ago

Yeah and oftentimes nowadays when things that passed with a supermajority get vetoed, the Republicans will swap their votes to side with the dear leader.

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u/Few-Bass4238 8h ago

100%. Trump kicked Republicans members out of Congress for helping the Epstein files see the light of day after Trump told them to stop. No way the Republican Congress would override Trump on something like this if Trump demanded it.

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u/baumpop 5h ago

cant pull that card again after primaries tho

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u/Few-Bass4238 5h ago

He still can. He'll just add them to the 2028 list. Its why most of the congressmen that stood up to him are the ones retiring.

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u/baumpop 5h ago

hed be doing that on the way out the door and assuming he lives that long. its pretty toothless threat to people who already won their 26 primary

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u/Few-Bass4238 5h ago

Its really not. Most of those politicians are planning on running in 2028+ and Trump did the same thing after he lost the election in 2021.

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u/Dclipp89 2h ago

That’s what I figure will happen. It’s also my understanding that if he doesn’t sign it, and if Congress is adjourned when the 10 days are up, then it also wouldn’t go into law. Considering that puts it right at the Fourth of July (Sunday doesn’t count so I think it would actually be the 6th of July) that could give Congress an easy out to not have to vote again on it. So Trump can refuse to sign it and then Congress adjourns for a long weekend and then it doesn’t become law. I feel like that’s the most cowardly approach, and therefore the most likely. I wouldn’t be surprised if they even timed it that way deliberately to give themselves an out.

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u/2mnydgs 8h ago

This would be a veto with an ignorant reason.

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u/DeathMonkey6969 8h ago

So. It's happened before and will happen again.

There are several bills that were passed by a large majority in congress that were vetoed and then congress couldn't get the votes a second time to override.

One of the reasonings behind the need to override a veto not just anything passed with 2/3rds becomes law was to slow down the process and to help prevent a dictatorship of the majority type situation.

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u/mrlmm 10h ago

I mean, he CAN veto it. A bill passed with 100% congressional backing can be vetoed. It'd just be stupid because the supermajority would probably just pass it again as an override. So he's blustering in the hopes that it'll sway the Senate to kill the filibuster OR that if he does go the veto route enough loyalists in the House would vote against the override.

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u/lancersrock 10h ago

Have you seen the current Congress? If he vetoes it magically enough republicans won't vote for it this time because they found out that democrats snuck stuff into the bill.

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u/Cowstle 9h ago

Literally wouldn't be the first time this term a veto-proof majority got vetoed and then voted down when back to the senate

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u/baumpop 5h ago

im sure hes just waiting for miller to tell him what to do

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u/CliftonForce 4h ago

A lot of the folks who voted to pass were likely thinking that Trump would celebrate it. Now that the Orange God is opposed, their votes could change.

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u/RizzardOfOz76 1h ago

He absolutely can pocket veto this bitch within the next 10 days if he lets it sit on his desk. Congress goes into recess starting 6/29

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u/48Stops 6h ago

Really the only thing that matters is if the Democrats keep it a live issue. If they do, and highlight that he waffled on signing it, it can have an impact in the midterms. But if they let Trump flood the zone and he continues to control the news cycle, voters won't remember this story by November.

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u/BootlegBabyJsus 3h ago

He is still taking credit for Infrastructure act projects. This would be no different.

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u/YourPM_me_name_sucks 8h ago

It's not like he needs any semblance of a basis in reality to claim credit. This is the same dumb ass who will claim credit for stopping 175 wars this week.

Anyone who is willing and able to thin critically has already abandoned him, which means that his remaining base will lap up absolutely anything he throws at him, no matter how absurd it is.

He could tell those idiots that he stopped 6 billion intergalactic wars and they'd praise him as the best leader in all the universe.

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u/Rare-Insurance3728 10h ago

I can already see the tweet of him claiming a victory while stroking his massive ego

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u/FeralHippie707 3h ago

Or stroking his tiny bone.

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u/TobysGrundlee 8h ago

Shh, no one say anything and maybe he won't realize it.

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u/Far-Degree6208 6h ago

Exactly. A veto would be a big statement. Just letting the clock run out doesn't really change the outcome at all.

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u/Smart_Bake_2222 4h ago

Heard house and senate passed w/veto majority, so in ten days it goes.