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Trump cancels signing of bipartisan housing bill, demanding voter ID provision

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Trump cancels signing of bipartisan housing bill, demanding voter ID provision

President Donald Trump on Wednesday canceled via Truth Social a scheduled Capitol Hill signing of a landmark bipartisan housing bill that leaders in both parties had heralded as a win.

"Today's Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" Trump posted Wednesday, a little over an hour before he was due at the Capitol to sign the bill into law.

The SAVE America Act is meant to cut down on noncitizen voting in U.S. elections - which happens rarely and is already illegal in federal contests - and impose nationwide voter ID laws. The House passed the SAVE America Act in February, and the measure is broadly popular among Republicans. But without Democratic support, the GOP is well short of the 60 votes needed to pass the legislation due to the Senate filibuster rule.

Rep. French Hill, R-Ark, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee and led the housing bill in the House, told CNBC on Wednesday, Trump "picked the day, and now he's chosen to change the day. So we'll let him do that, and we'll see what he decides to do."

Wednesday was the second time in a week that Trump has thwarted congressional Republican priorities at the last minute by demanding passage of the SAVE America Act. Last week, Trump took to Truth Social and directed Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and the president's permanent pick to be the director of national intelligence, not to appear for a scheduled Senate confirmation hearing hours before it was to begin.

"This just doesn't make any sense, other than whatever it is he wants to do is a complete indifference to the cost squeeze on American families and to genuine efforts to do something about it," Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who co-led the housing bill in the Senate, said during an appearance on CNBC's Squawk on the Street.