President Donald Trump abruptly called off a planned signing ceremony for a bipartisan housing bill ahead of a meeting with Senate Republicans in the Capitol on Wednesday, making clear that he’s in no mood to compromise as he pressures them to pass his voting legislation.
Republicans had been hoping to use the housing bill, which aims to lower costs and increase supply, as a selling point to voters ahead of critical November midterm elections. And GOP senators were eager for a conciliatory luncheon with the president after escalating tensions in recent weeks. But the president upended their plans when he declared on social media that he won’t sign the legislation until they send him his bill to require proof of citizenship for all voters.
“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,” Trump posted.
Trump has pressed Republicans for months to kill the Senate filibuster and focus on his proof-of-citizenship voting bill even though Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has repeatedly told him that neither has the votes to pass. The bill would require proof of citizenship for all voters and force states to require voter identification.
Asked about Trump’s post on the housing bill, Thune told reporters, “that was his call to make.”
This is him having a temper tantrum because the bipartisan War Powers thing.
Time to threaten him with te 25th Amendment removal and have THAT be bipartisan.
Time to threaten him with te 25th Amendment removal
That relies on his own cabinet, full of hand-picked loyalists. Never going to happen.
If Congress wants to threaten him with removal, impeachment is the mechanism for that.
Impeachment, conviction and my personal favorite:
25th only matters if Trump can’t or won’t cancel it.
Contesting the 25th amendment is just as hard as impeachment and removal, so might as well just go that route without the extra steps.
Anyone who thinks there are actually going to be fair and legitimate midterms is completely delusional.
The time to buy a firearm is now.
The time was at least 5 years ago. Learning takes practice and that takes time. Everyone make sure you practice with your weapon.
Bought most of mine in 2019/2020, been practicing, preparing and building community since then. The writing was on the walls and clear as fucking day.
The time to coordinate, collaborate and train hard is now.
Not sure what exactly you’ve been waiting for.
Maybe he’ll fuck that up too
Which is why the time is now.
Don’t wait until Republican voter registration becomes a requirement to pass a firearms background check.
… which I consider to be a national emergency
Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!..
Donvict is such a petty little bitch.
Get your hand out of grandpa’s ass, Stephen Miller
Do you think trump is aware that he can’t stonewall that bill for very long?
If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
So the reason they’re mad is that if they want it to pass they’ll have to stay in Washington for the next 10 days and not go back on vacation? That tracks.
He thinks Congress will capitulate to him within that 10-day period.
Or, He and his toady chorus are completely unaware of the ten day rule
Anyone else confident they won’t?
More like ‘cautiously optimistic’. This is Congress we’re talking about.
and there hasn’t been a pocket veto since gwb.
If they veto it, or pocket veto it by ignoring it, it takes a larger majority to pass it. I think you are mistaken here.
If they veto it, or pocket veto it by ignoring it, it takes a larger majority to pass it. I think you are mistaken here.
No, they’re right. Trump can’t stonewall because that exact clause in the Constitution takes the “ignores it” option off the table.
Read OP’s quote again:
If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
“They” don’t veto anything. The president vetoes. Only him. And even then he either signs it and it is approved, or he returns it to Congress and it is rejected (vetoed), one or the other, within ten days.
That’s it. There are no other options, because the clause quoted takes any other option away.
If the president simply does nothing it becomes law, “in like Manner as if he had signed it.”
A pocket veto is when the president does not sign it within the ten-day period AND cannot return the bill to Congress because Congress is no longer in session or adjourns within that ten day period.
So how a pocket veto works depends entirely on Congress being in session or not. “They” don’t do anything else. The bill now either gets signed or it fails, just like any other bill.
If a bill fails because it is successfully pocket vetoed by Congress’ absence during its attempted return, they just leave it as failed and it dies, or they reintroduce it as a normal bill, requiring a normal number of signatures, and again the executive will simply sign it or return it.
So I have no idea where you’re getting that more than a simple majority is required to pass a reintroduced bill after a pocket veto, or why this bill would require anything different than usual. If a new bill is reintroduced because this one fails, it will be voted on in the same manner that this one was.
80 years old child
There is no need to disrespect children like that!
If only there was SOMETHING Republicans Could Can and Could Have DONE to appeal to Voters! OH WELL!
He got paid off. Not by lobbyists to his pacs, maybe a bit of that, but under the table. Millions and millions to not sign it.
Was there ever any doubt?
TRAITOR
The GOP has a late-stage tumor, but removing it might just give them a chance to go on. Not sure why they don’t consider this.
The GOP is cancer themselves.
There’s no coming back from what they’ve done
There shouldn’t be.
But they go low, we go high, right? /s
