Trump snubs housing bill to pressure GOP

President Trump says he won't sign a major bipartisan housing bill, according to Axios, but it's a symbolic protest—the legislation passes into law at midnight regardless. Trump is withholding his signature to pressure Senate Republicans into passing the SAVE America Act, which would require citizenship proof and photo ID to vote. The housing bill, approved overwhelmingly by Congress, addresses soaring homeownership costs and bars large investors from mass-purchasing single-family homes. Voting rights groups argue the SAVE Act could disenfranchise more than twenty-one million Americans who lack easy access to required identification documents.

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