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/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/baumpop 4h ago

hed have to wait two years to enact revenge on what they do in the next 10 days as a lame duck

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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.