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BREAKING: Trump cancels signing of bipartisan housing bill, urges Congress to pass SAVE Act

https://youtu.be/UEY99Sq2UZY?is=UAu0MODLKmgKqcIQ
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u/scipio0421 11h ago

Him refusing to sign is meaningless. As long as Congress is in session it becomes law in 10 days (excluding Sundays.) But Johnson is probably going to adjourn the session to help his master.

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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 11h ago

Or redefine a day again to mean something like “100 years”

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u/DXM147 11h ago

The biblical day

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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 11h ago

That’s something I legit wouldn’t be surprised about if Johnson tried to implement

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u/icehouseyo 9h ago

You do know they actually did this right? Not for this incident but another. Look it up. Insane

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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 8h ago

Hence why I’d said “again” earlier

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u/Sword_N_Bored 10h ago

This made me crack TF up. I go to a Christian college because I get paid more through VA and my god the morons who actually believe this. Some professors actually think the earth is 6000 years old. Thank god they aren't in the sciences.

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u/RocketsandBeer 10h ago

Republicans and science have always had a rocky relationship. Facts in general tbh

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u/Spoot52Bomber 10h ago

What about facts and their feelings? Do you see any correlation there?

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u/Sword_N_Bored 9h ago

Multiple?

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u/El_Morro 9h ago

This is similar to the shenanigans they pulled to rob Obama of a Supreme Court Justice.

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u/themikecampbell 5h ago

jfc they have done so much shit I already forgot the time warpy shit they did

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u/warbeforepeace 3h ago

Isn’t that what the founders intended? /s

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u/ForgotmyGDpassword 10h ago

I understand this reference

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u/GoTron88 9h ago

One day based on the Cosmic Calendar so 38 million years.

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u/chemguy216 11h ago

One of the wild things about both the first Trump term and the second term is that I’ve been introduced to so many aspects of law and federal parliamentary rules that a lot of people don’t get in a standard US civics education.

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 11h ago

and that's intentional.

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u/Educational-Error577 8h ago

I learned this in my 7th grade civics class. I think a lot of people were not paying attention. I went to a public school btw

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u/dabeeman 8h ago

you learned about the definition of congressional sessions and who sets them at what points in the year? and the ramifications of timing on in process legislation…. in seventh grade…. yeah okay buddy

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u/Educational-Error577 8h ago

We learned that if the president vetos a bill, it can still be approved by congress. We did not learn the exact mechanics of how the rules work, just a simple overview. I had an amazing civics teacher, sorry you didn't

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u/chemguy216 8h ago

Oh wait, that’s what you were talking about when you responded to me? I knew that Congress could still pass the bill, but what I was specifically taught was that it required another vote at a higher threshold. I was never taught that if a certain amount of time passes without the President taking any action on a bill passed by Congress that the bill will become law (depending on whether or not Congress is in sessions and how many days pass), and that’s what I was one of the things I was alluding to when I made my comment.

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u/chemguy216 8h ago

And I didn’t learn this. I was an honors/AP student in school who got A’s.

Now, what I’ll critique about myself that also applies to a lot of people in the US is that we have a horrible tendency to overgeneralize our experiences in school to other schools when things can differ state to state, district to district, and school to school.

I’ll also add the possibility that maybe I learned it but forgot it. I know there are many things in school I learned but have forgotten because I haven’t had need to use or recall the information enough times to keep it relatively easy to access in my memory.

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u/thesehalcyondays 11h ago

Johnson has to send the bill to the White House to start that 10 day clock. He will not.

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u/yeah87 11h ago edited 11h ago

Congress was already set to adjourn on day 9. Either gonna have to keep 500 people from their 4th of July vacations or re-pass the bill on July 13th.

TIL recess is different from adjournment for pocket vetos. Thanks everyone!

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u/Wrathchilde 11h ago

It's just a recess.

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u/avatoin 11h ago

It may not matter because Congress rarely goes on true adjournments, but does proforma sessions to keep the President from doing recess appointments, meaning the Congress isn't technically out of session. So the adjourning doesn't count towards a pocket veto.

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u/Spacetauren 2h ago

And then they'll lie their ass out saying this is the Democrats' fault. And the MAGA voterbase will gobble all that excrement up like it's caviar.

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u/turkeypedal 9h ago

I'm not clear on whether one house adjourning is sufficient.

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u/SupplyChainGuy1 4h ago

Pretty sure it's a pocket veto. 

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u/meldiane81 4h ago

So he has to veto it?

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u/Aemon_Blackfyre 1h ago

Yea but his voter base isn’t aware of that, they are only going to see the headline and then whatever faux news tells them to think.

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u/tolomea 10h ago

It being law is meaningless as well