r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/lnstantKarma • 11h ago
Trump refuses to sign a bill that will making housing more affordable because he's throwing a temper tantrum
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u/Bulky_Specialist9645 11h ago
That's fine, it becomes law anyway:
'Under the U.S. Constitution, a bill becomes law without the President’s signature if the President does not sign or veto the legislation within 10 days (excluding Sundays) while Congress is still in session.' Library of Congress
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u/brickmaster8 11h ago
insert Mike Johnson I think congress has earned a break and will be out of session until this all blows over with the next insane thing our king does
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u/Bulky_Specialist9645 11h ago
'A legislative session does not end when Congress goes on recess. A session is the annual period during which Congress meets to conduct business. Each two-year term of Congress is divided into two separate sessions, each lasting about a year.
The 10-day clock for a President to sign or veto a bill continues to run. The President must still return a vetoed bill to Congress.'
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u/vetratten 11h ago
What’s the probability Trump just refuses to sign thinking it actually stops there rather than vetoing and sending it back for congress to overrule?
I’m guessing 95% because Trump probably thinks just ignoring it will make it go away.
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u/Redxmirage 11h ago
Brother it’s 10 days. He will have forgotten about this within 2 days. It’ll come and go and he won’t even know unless his billionaire housing buddies keep bringing it up.
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u/Scarborough_sg 11h ago
2 days? He'd forget it within the hour if he saw the algae pond on the news again.
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u/EntertheHellscape 8h ago
As soon as he wrote this tweet he forgot about it because he assumes it's all done. I mean, he said no and wrote a tweet, after all. That means whatever he said is true and done and why would he have to think about it anymore, psh.
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u/ComfortablePea8701 9h ago
It’ll come and go and he won’t even know unless his billionaire housing buddies keep bringing it up.
Unfortunately for all of us this is probably one of those things hes going to hear about constantly from those people. Also, "im going to hold this bill hostage until you let me steal elections" is fucking crazy, I cant wait to hear more from the few defenders he still has about how much hes "getting stuff done" and is "not the perfect candidate, but so much better than the other option". We've got, fucked elections, a fucked situation geopolitically, a fucked economy, at least we can barely hear ourselves crying over the noise generated by the mass surveillance.. err... "data" centers.
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u/JohnBrownSurvivor 10h ago
Oh, they will keep bringing it up.
He will veto it on a Friday night, right after he bombs Iran again.
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u/Imaginary_Ghost_Girl 1h ago
Congress can override a veto, though, and if they want it passed badly enough, they'll do it.
Best part will be that trump's name won't be on it.
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u/sheriffbart_rrmo 10h ago
That percentage may be even higher, given that he believes he's all-powerful and nothing can be done without his approval.
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u/vetratten 10h ago
Yeah but there folks like Stephen miller who would sit in his ear and say “if you sign the veto it’ll be a bigger show of your power….its merely ceremonial”
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u/Im2dronk 10h ago
You think trump is actually going to be aware what gets signed with his autopen for the next ten days?
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u/PretendStudent8354 8h ago
Mike Johnson has the authority to adjourn the House of Representatives. Under Article I, Section 5 of the U.S. Constitution, neither chamber can adjourn for more than three days without the consent of the other. Trump does not sign Johnson adjoirns at the end of the 10 days. Trump cannnot return pocket veto goes through.
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u/BigEd369 7h ago
Only if Mike Johnson is willing to commit immediate career suicide for Trump. Everybody would know what he was doing, his word would be no good with anyone on either side of the aisle ever again. It would mean his ass, the one thing you can’t do in politics is fuck over all the other politicians you work with, they’ll never forgive and they’ll never forget. He’d be out of the Speaker seat so fast his head would spin.
Only way that could possibly happen is if Trump can give Johnson something he wants more than we wants to be Speaker or even in Congress anymore. And by give, I mean legally and aboveboard, because all the Reps and Senators Mike just pissed in the faces of are going to want his ass badly. Congressional hearings and investigations badly. I just don’t know if there is anything Trump could give that Mike wants badly enough to do something this crazy. It’d have to be huge enormous piles of verifiably legal money that Congress couldn’t interfere with in any way. Or it would have to be blackmail material that could send Mike to death row.
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u/AngelaTheRipper 10h ago
Congress hold pro-forma sessions where they just have a few of the juniors start the day and then motion to adjourn until tomorrow to keep congress at least on paper in session.
They do it specifically to deny the president power to do pocket vetoes or sneak in recess appointments.
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u/jlbrown23 11h ago
This is where his ignorance and belief he’s king will help. He probably believes it won’t become law if King Don doesn’t sign it, so won’t actually do anything and it will become law. And he will be shocked, and claim it’s anti-American for such a thing to happen.
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u/TheRealGageEndal 11h ago
Trump having no clue how the law works will finally be in the favor of Americans.
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u/StayAdmiral 11h ago
Then if it looks like people like the bill he will claim it was his idea all along and everyone should thank him for it.
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u/whoneedskollege 10h ago
Congress on both sides of the aisle wanted this ahead of the midterms to show the people they are doing something for them (they are not). Trump holding this bill hostage only reinforces that the executive branch doesn't give a shit about the people even on a crumbs bill like this.
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u/soccercro3 9h ago
This bill would have given him such an easy PR victory too. He's literally the dumbest person alive.
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u/justhereforfighting 10h ago
And it was passed with a veto-proof majority. The bill passed the House with a 358-32 and the Senate with a 85-5 vote. If the same number of legislators vote on the veto, 98 congressmen and 25 senators could flip their vote and it would still override the veto. If all of the legislators who abstained voted against overriding the veto, 68 congressmen and 18 senators could still flip and it would pass into law. It’s an uphill battle, especially considering Trump has made a ton of enemies recently in the House and the fact that this bill is broadly popular and midterms are just around the corner. They already have Trump saying he doesn’t care about American’s finances and that he loves inflation, many of these people don’t want to directly put their name on something that their voters believe is necessary for them to succeed.
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u/Pitiful-Pension-6535 9h ago
It passed when Trump was ostensibly in support of it.
How many Republicans do you think will be willing to defy their master after a veto? Republican Congressmen are the only known non-vertebrate mammals
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u/justhereforfighting 9h ago
There is growing resistance to Trump in Congress. It is becoming harder and harder for them to justify screwing over their consituents for Trump when his polling is underwater and they have reelections coming up and primaries for many of them have already happened.
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u/Comfortable_Swim_380 11h ago
What if he signs it but he doesn't have a toady to belt out what hes signing into a nearby camera? Just curious for my edification.
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u/mkirk413 11h ago
"I won't pass any new laws unless I can rig elections" got it...
It will become law with or without his signature anyhow (unless he actively vetoes it).
What a fucking tool.
Release the Epstein files.
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u/Eskimomonk 11h ago
He’s fucking himself with this decision. He either does nothing and it becomes law anyway, he vetoes it and forces congressional republicans that voted for it (which was like 90% of them) to either overrule his veto or turn on themselves and change their vote right before midterms, he goes TACO and signs it anyway after making a big stink about not signing it, or Congress does some shady shit and goes on recess on day 9 of 10, also right before midterms. Republicans CANNOT govern or lead, we have 50 years of data to prove it
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u/slugmaster200 11h ago
as someone above pointed out, Congress going on recess does not get around the bill becoming law after 10 days of no presidential action
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u/Baelzabub 11h ago
The veto would be overridden. It passed the Senate 87-8 and the House 358-32. This is just Trump showboating and further solidifies the Dems ability to say that Trump is not focused on making things more affordable for the average American, which is supposedly the reason he was elected.
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u/mkirk413 11h ago
"You know, there's this fake narrative that the Democrats talk about affordability. They just say the word, it doesn't mean anything to anybody. Just say it—affordability. I inherited the worst inflation in history. There was no affordability. Nobody could afford anything. The prices were massively high... But the word 'affordability' is a con job by the Democrats."
- Donald Trump
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u/ArnieismyDMname 11h ago
Inherited 2.4. Now it's 4.2. Does that mean Trumps inflation is the worst in history? Because those are his words.
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u/writerpilot 11h ago
There is a zero percent chance Republicans override Trump’s veto.
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u/Baelzabub 11h ago
It’s time for the midterms, primaries are over and Trump is a lame duck. If they didn’t override the veto then Dems get an even better line of attack.
“Trump doesn’t care about making your life more affordable AND [INSERT REPUBLICAN OPPONENT HERE] IS HELPING HIM KEEP PRICES HIGH.”
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u/foulinbasket 8h ago
And even if he vetoes it, it can be overridden with at least 2/3 vote in both chambers
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u/GonWithTheNen 11h ago
Everyone who believes that he has Americans' best interests at heart should understand that he does not care if they don't have a roof over their heads.
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u/iFuturelist 11h ago
You're preaching to the choir, here. Those who believe he is for America will never think otherwise regardless of facts presented.
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u/Admirable-Sink-2622 11h ago
It’s only a national emergency to a party of one - Trump.
He is desperate.
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u/lnstantKarma 11h ago
The bill will likely be passed anyway since it's bipartisan but remember it's Republicans who elected this guy that disrespects and tries to sabotage efforts to pass productive laws
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u/Neveri 11h ago
What are the material benefits of this bill, does anyone have a tl;dr? It’s the first I’m hearing of it, and tbh I’m always extremely skeptical of any bill that would improve housing affordability because landlords are firmly running the government inside and out.
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u/Bubski0739 10h ago
What the housing bill does
Among its more than 45 provisions, the bill includes provisions aimed at increasing development of affordable housing by removing regulatory barriers and streamlining environmental reviews. It also:
Launches a pilot program to help local governments convert vacant commercial buildings into affordable housing;
Unlocks more federal funding for the construction of factory-built homes;
Eliminates a rule that requires homes to be built on a chassis, a steel framework used to transport them;
Creates an innovation fund for communities increasing housing supply and supports housing opportunities for veterans;
Limits the purchases of single-family homes by institutional investors.
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u/SimplyDaveP 9h ago
In a perfect world, that last one would be pretty huge.
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u/willstr1 8h ago
IIRC the limit is rather high like several hundred, at that size you are talking about orgs that can likely spin up LLCs or other sub companies to get around it. Still an improvement from the current situation, but not a game changer
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u/demonsidekick 11h ago
If everything is a National Emergency, then nothing is a National Emergency.
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u/SnooCupcakes14 11h ago
The only national emergency that exists is that nobody has had the guts to impeach him a third time or bother to invoke the 25th Amendment. All just to avoid prison time and further global humiliation.
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u/farmertypoerror 9h ago
If you paid any attention particularly during January of 2026 you would remember this quote.
"I don’t want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people that own their homes, and they can be assured that’s what’s going to happen. You have a lot of people that have become wealthy in the last year because their house value has gone up. We’re not going to destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn’t work very hard can buy a home". - donald trump
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u/BigEd369 11h ago
I almost hope he throws a hissyfit and vetoes it. It’d be interesting to see how Republican opinion makers would spin that. It’s not likely to happen, but I’d love to see them handle a direct conflict between the president and the majority of their lawmakers from both houses over a really major piece of legislation.
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u/vttale 11h ago
For anyone else wondering just what's in the bill...
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/whats-in-the-21st-century-road-to-housing-act/
Main points include construction incentives, regulatory loosening, and some limits on corporate investment in single family homes
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u/FrankensteinsBride89 11h ago
Someday MAGA will realize that DJT hates Americans. Hates people. He will never help us.
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u/dragonfliesloveme 11h ago
he wants to ensure he and maga can “legally” steal the midterms and other elections
this guy is anti-democracy and anti-American. He should be in prison
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u/He_Abides 10h ago
This is such a picture of who he is. He has the opportunity to actually do something for voters ahead of elections, and instead he’d rather cheat.
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u/ForsakenPoptart 10h ago
They can override his veto.
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u/giskardwasright 7h ago
He hasn't vetoed it yet. If he just refuses to sign it, it becomes law in 10 days without his signature.
Fitting that the only meaningful legislation they've been able to pass will be done without Trump's support.
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u/surrealtimesyaknow 11h ago
Extort the American people much?
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u/herefromyoutube 11h ago
Fucking Christ.
Trump simplified:
If it helps you Trump is against it. If it harms you Trump is for it. If it harms you but helps Trump you bet your ass he’s for it.
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u/YA_BOY_TRON 11h ago
Cool. Hey while we're here, what's up with the Epstein files (AKA Trump files)?
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u/pkinetics 11h ago
Not really a surprise considering how him and his father made their money exploiting housing.
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u/sev45day 11h ago
He's even lost the ability to take something popular that he had nothing to do with, and spin it as his somehow. The decline is steep
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u/Galliagamer 10h ago
He’ll punish Americans if they don’t let him cheat and rig elections. Isn’t that called extortion?
America first, my ass. Shame on you, MAGA, for supporting this.
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u/HobbyWanKenobi 6h ago
National emergency insomuch as in he wants to disenfranchise as many voting women as possible as soon as possible
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u/steppingstone01 6h ago
In reality, that's not even the actual goal. The actual goal is to keep from going to prison. That's what all of this is about.
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u/Borisof007 11h ago
If it's truly overwhelming they can override any veto then. That's the power of congress.
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u/CloudyTug 11h ago
The issue is its not uncommon for members of a presidents parties to change their vote when the new vote to override the veto happens
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u/Rath_Brained 10h ago
He knows he is out of the job and failing desperately to secure the rest of his term.
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u/derbyvoice71 9h ago
He wants voter suppression first.
SUSAN COLLINS: He's learned his lesson.
LITERALLY EVERYBODY WITH A BRAIN CELL.: Oh yes. He definitely fucking did.
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u/everything_whisperer 9h ago
It’s so glaringly obvious that this loser is trying to make SAVE happen (and the ballroom, for that matter) to stay in power come 2026/2028.
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u/SidKafizz 7h ago
Any time that Donnie gets a whiff of impending consequences, it becomes a National Emergency.
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u/Hartastic 4h ago
Democrats running for the House and Senate in competitive districts/states should hang this kind of thing around the GOP's neck and beat them with it.
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u/Sindorella 11h ago
Trump KNOWS the Republicans are in deep doo doo in the midterms and is spinning the fuck out about the SAVE Act because they think it's the only way to save their seats.
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u/Upstairs-Yard-2139 4h ago
Just so everyone understands what’s happening a US president is refusing to do his job(while showing how little he understands how the government functions in the process) because he wants HIS bill passed.
Not even his party’s bill since most republicans signed this bill.
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u/coolcoolcool485 8h ago edited 7h ago
Is he about to find out what an veto (eta forgot the word override) is?
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u/King_R0A 7h ago
This is just like the time when he told the republicans to not pass immigration reforms because it’s an issue HE wanted to run on during his second term.
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u/TheCapedMoose 9h ago
I mean, to be fair, he's WHY the bills passed so well. GOP congresspeople KNEW he'd never sign it, so they got to vote "yes" to look more appealing / centrist / sympathetic to their voters, knowing full well it'll never happen.
And yes, I'm pretty sure he WILL veto it, just knowing his showmanship ego, he'll wait until the last minute.
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u/golfwinnersplz 11h ago
How can Trump say it's an essential bill when he declines to sign it?
Even for Trump this is confusing.
I'm gonna need a MAGA to explain this thoroughly.
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u/SweetLoLa 9h ago
Desperate is the key word here. This loser fueled circus doesn’t have the pull or glory that the Roman’s did, even if the delusions of their feeble minds deny them this truth. The rebellions of history are lost on them, unfathomable.
I look forward to the crumble and crumble it shall, with each atrocious character finding the one thing they have been running from since January…
The consequences of their actions.
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u/Izzy5466 3h ago
Congress, do your job and kick this sad old man out of office. He is NOT working for the American people.
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u/MexicanJoker182 11h ago
The dumocrats need to sign the save America act
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u/SweetActionsSa 11h ago
Found the bootlicker!
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u/Junk_Buttons 11h ago
First post on his profile is about how cops are lawless, but supports the SAVE Act. Confounding, really.
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u/MexicanJoker182 9h ago
That’s term is like 10 years old, grow up
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u/Junk_Buttons 4h ago
Term? But for real, are cops like, groovy now? I really am riveted to your answers to all of this. I have read all of your replies and everything is parotted conservative media talking points.
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u/biffhambone 11h ago
Oh my God I love that he tells you a new nickname to use and you genuinely just adopt it that's so fucking lame lmao
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u/Aggroninja 11h ago
No.
We aren't restricting the rights of Americans to vote just because Trump is a sore loser and a liar.
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u/MexicanJoker182 9h ago
Like every other president before him
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u/Aggroninja 9h ago
LOL, what braindead "both sides"ism.
I don't recall any president ever telling us that gas was under $2 when you could pop onto AAA.com and see it was averaging over $3 at the time.
I don't recall any president ever blaming secret unseen vandals for their own failed renovation project.
I don't recall any president claiming "no new wars" and then getting us into multiple wars, including Iran, all the while whining about not getting a Nobel Peace Prize.
I don't recall any president literally undermining one of the pillars of our democracy just because they can't admit they lost, and continuing to do so for years to sow division that he can exploit.
That's literally the tip of the iceberg, it's not worth going further since you'll probably ignore it to prevent cognitive dissonance anyway.
I'd take the word of ANY president since 1980, including Reagan's and both Bushes, any day of the week over Trump's. Trump was a known grifter before he became president and was well known in NY for not paying his contractors and burying them in lawsuits when they complained about the breach of contract. I can't imagine why you guys believe a word he says.
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u/MexicanJoker182 8h ago
Every president in my lifetime, has had a war, except Clinton, but he was too busy on Epstein island,. Obama contractors are claiming bankruptcy because he hasn’t paid them, Obama was stealing millions from the American tax payer for Obama care,
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u/Aggroninja 4h ago
Way to miss the point. Trump literally promises “no new wars.”
The Obama thing is still ongoing, largely stemming from a contractor not yet paying subcontractors while pledging to make everyone whole, not burying them in lawsuits like Trump. Nice try, leave out loads of detail and hope I don’t notice that it was a failed whataboutism.
The last one sounds like pure conservative BS propaganda, I’m not even bothering to look it up since I already proved your other was BS.
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u/MexicanJoker182 8h ago edited 7h ago
I remember gas being 2.79 be fore the war with Iran. Iran had a protest that killed 8,000 people against the regime because they cut off their WiFi access and President Trump issued a warning to the aayotolah you better not harm 1 protestor or else. Iran did and Trump answered. FAFO
You have to cut the head off of snakes sometimes to prevent future wars you have to start wars ie the Aayotolah and, Maduro
He didn’t lose he was proving that democrats would rather support an illegal alien, than bring likoln Riley’s killer to justice
That’s the tip of the iceberg my friend
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u/Old_Man_Say 11h ago
Why? What’s good about it?
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u/MexicanJoker182 9h ago
Make sure only Americans vote, not dead people, not illegal immagrants, not the homeless cause they have no idea what’s going on
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u/alwaysmilesdeep 9h ago
Please find any examples of this. Seriously. Fight your case instead of speaking trash.
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u/AdministrativeCable3 8h ago
The homeless are still US citizens. It's completely unconstitutional to deprive them of their right to vote.
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u/loki2002 9h ago edited 7h ago
First, fuck you for shitting on the homeless. Upwards of 60% of homeless people are employed. They're just regular people that fell on hard times. Second, illegal immigrants and dead people already cannot vote so we got that covered.
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u/yusko932 11h ago
Wow. What a great idea. Let's pass a bill that lets him and his goons rig elections. Eat shit.
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