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.”
They could remove him anyttime they want.
Instead, they just whine. They don’t really want the soap on a rope.
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?
Donvict is such a petty little bitch.
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.
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.
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.
Anyone else confident they won’t?
Or, He and his toady chorus are completely unaware of the ten day rule
and there hasn’t been a pocket veto since gwb.
TRAITOR
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.
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.
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.
Yeah. But unfortunately trump has essentially proven that Congress will never deal with a corrupt president no matter what. There couldn’t be a better example of someone who objectively should be removed from office
proven that Congress will never deal with a corrupt president no matter what.
I don’t know. I think there are circumstances where it could happen.
Consider, for example, if the president was a Democrat.
That’s absolutely true, actually.
Impeachment, conviction and my personal favorite:
Anyone who thinks there are actually going to be fair and legitimate midterms is completely delusional.
Progressives need to prepare for the worst if it comes to it. If a civil war comes, the antifascists better form a more organised and unified resistance than the Spanish antifa ever did during the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish antifascists made up of liberals, communists, socialists and anarchists were more busy shooting at each other than at actual fascists.
That was largely down to the communists. Stalin already had Molotov-Ribbentrop in his sights, and it was signed around the time Franco won the Spanish civil war.
I mean, I do
Sorry to hear that.
I hope you’re right to still have faith.
I really do.
I just don’t think it’s gonna happen.
Democracy is over in the US until you sort out your fascist infection.
If Trump had a plan he wouldn’t be fighting so hard to pass the SAVE Act
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.
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.
If only there was SOMETHING Republicans Could Can and Could Have DONE to appeal to Voters! OH WELL!
80 years old child
There is no need to disrespect children like that!
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.
There’s no coming back from what they’ve done
There shouldn’t be.
But they go low, we go high, right? /s
The GOP is cancer themselves.
Get your hand out of grandpa’s ass, Stephen Miller
