Trump escalates infighting with Senate Republicans. Trump will lose the fight.
Trump Refuses to Sign Popular Bill Passed by Congress
Truth Social: 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! President DJT
Jun 24, 2026, 8:26 AM
Trump Downgrades Importance of Housing Bill
The Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren centric housing bill, which is of minor importance compared to lower interest rates, and even FISA, pales in comparison to passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT. That is what Americans, both Dumocrats, Republicans, and everyone else, care about. Get the bad Republicans to approve it or, better yet, Terminate the Filibuster and approve it, AND EVERYTHING ELSE REPUBLICANS HAVE EVER DREAMED OF. The Dumocrats will do it in hour one, 100%. Republicans will feel very stupid if they don’t do it first. I’ll be watching with tears in my eyes!!! President DJT
Jun 24, 2026, 7:49 AM
A Bill of Merit
The fact is, that is a bipartisan bill of actual merit. It included some worthwhile deregulation points.
The bill includes measures to speed up federal environmental reviews for certain housing projects. It removes restrictions on building manufactured homes.
The bill eliminated the requirement that manufactured homes include a metal-frame chassis. That would save up to $10,000 on each units.
Elizabeth Warren’s original version of the bill included a provision that would have forced developers of some new single-family rental homes to sell their properties within seven years of constructing them.
After pushback from the industry, that unwise provision was removed.
Nothing in the bill would fix housing. But it was a bill with all good and no bad provisions.
I suppose it’s fitting that Trump refuses to sign something genuinely beneficial.
Trump Abruptly Cancels Signing Ceremony for Bipartisan Housing Bill
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump Abruptly Cancels Signing Ceremony for Bipartisan Housing Bill
President Trump abruptly canceled plans to sign bipartisan housing legislation, saying he would refuse to take action on the measure until Congress passes a long-stalled bill he has championed that would impose strict new voter-eligibility rules.
The move ratcheted up tensions within his own party hours before a closed-door lunch with Senate Republicans, many of whom have repeatedly told him the voting bill has no path to passage.
In a series of social-media posts on Wednesday morning that surprised lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Trump said the housing bill, which passed both chambers with overwhelming majorities, was “of minor importance” compared with his other priorities. He derided the legislation for having the support of Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. The cancellation was necessary, he wrote, because he considers passing the SAVE America Act, which tightens voting rules nationwide, “a national emergency.”
Trump’s comments risk undercutting an effort by Republicans to show they are doing something to address Americans’ concerns about the cost of living, stretching from healthcare to food to housing. Democrats have a strong shot at taking back the House in the midterm elections. In the Senate, Republicans are growing nervous that their majority could be at risk as well, due to economic concerns and opposition to the war in Iran.
The Senate passed the housing bill earlier this week with a 85-5 majority. Sens. Mike Lee (R., Utah), Rick Scott (R., Fla.), and Ron Johnson (R., Wis.), who have advocated for using more floor time to try to pass the SAVE America Act, were among the handful of lawmakers to vote no.
The House cleared the legislation on Tuesday by a 358-32 majority, easily stamping out an effort by the House Freedom Caucus to torpedo the legislation as a form of leverage to pass the voting-eligibility bill.
Five Things to Expect
- This stunt will further aggravate Trump’s fragile relationship with the Senate.
- The SAVE Act is dead
- Any new reconciliation bill is in further jeopardy.
- Trump is a lame duck.
- The housing bill will pass stand alone
Point five above requires an understanding of the Constitution.
- Under Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution, if a president does not sign or veto a bill within 10 days (excluding Sundays) while Congress is in session, it automatically becomes law.
- Because the clock is based on legislative days rather than straight calendar days, it typically takes roughly two weeks in real-time.
- If Congress adjourns and prevents the president from returning the veto during those 10 days, the bill is effectively vetoed. This is known as a pocket veto.
Congress is not going to adjourn so this is not a pocket veto situation.
If Trump vetoed this bill, he would be overridden given the majorities posted above. So either Trump backs down and signs the bill, or it automatically becomes law.
Political Realities
Trump’s foolish stunt today shows a lack of understanding the Constitution as well as arrogance on Senate math.
There is no chance of the SAVE Act passing. Trump refuses to accept that political math.
And if Trump holds out too much longer, Reconciliation Act 3.0 will die on the vine along with more military funding to replenish weapons wasted in his foolish war on Iran that he lost.
That is what I am hoping for. Without funding, and without weapons, Trump will not restart the war in Iran.
Trump’s Demand on SAVE Act Makes Passing Any New Reconciliation Bill Difficult
I discussed SAVE Act math, in detail this morning at 1:11 AM.
For discussion, please see Trump’s Demand on SAVE Act Makes Passing Any New Reconciliation Bill Difficult
The Save Act is dead. Click above for a detailed recap why.
This morning, at 8:26 AM, Trump made matters worse for himself by his housing bill shenanigans.
All of this infighting increased the odds of no further legislation this year.
That is fine with me because it makes it even harder to get anything done which is what I want. The housing bill will pass anyway.
He has the power of the pen and just returning the favor.
This is the most politically vulnerable Trump has been since being elected president as 45 and 47. He is losing GOP support in both houses. He managed to keep an overwhelming majority of the GOP Congress in his camp when he was the 45th president. This is no longer true. Is he vulnerable to impeachment before the midterms? Probably not. But as Mish commented he will be should the House turn Democratic in ’27. He will definitely be investigated by the House after the midterms should the Dems have the majority and there is a lot to investigate.
Will he be convicted in the Senate after the midterms? Possibly but not likely unless the Dems have a 60-seat majority in the Senate in ’27 then conviction is a possibility.
His mental faculties are clearing showing a decline when his Truth Social posts are deprecating the new Iranian leadership in Tehran and the representatives in Switzerland, then threatening the latter with assassinations which is most likely a war crime; and if not, it is certainly only provides Iran with more grist for the mill against Trump and the US.
Who would’ve thought at the beginning of the Trump II administration he would appear more deranged and a terrorist than Iran by some of our allies, the Arab world and the Global South?
To compound matters more and for the worst for Trump some of his former Israeli supporters in the Cabinet are excoriating him for signing the MOU and his subsequent press conference. This week Miriam Adelson’s newspaper in Israel wrote a scathing editorial gibing him for signing the MOU.
One doesn’t need to ponder what the American Zionist donors such as Singer, the Ellisons, Marcus Family are thinking either.
Trump has also lost the populist no foreign wars base of his party and large swaths of Independents that voted for him due to inflation and the perceived Biden open door immigration policy.
He still maintains a solid 30% or more support depending upon the poll. These are in the main the cultists. He may lose some of them should he screw up the negotiations that closes again the Straits of Hormuz which will predicate a Great Recession II or most likely a Great Depression II.
The US and the world still haven’t escaped the possibility – even if the Straits remains moderately open – that a significant economic downturn will not result. The two main reasons why oil is in the $70 range are China did not import approximately 6 million of barrels of oil a day through its eastern ports during the Iran – US War and the US nearly depleted its SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) as well as refined heavy, blended and sweet crude to its allies. Should the PRC begin to receive its contractually agreed oil purchases from Iran, Saudi Arabia and Brazil at its eastern ports this will exacerbate the shortages due to China taking the lion’s share leaving the ROW bidding up prices to take the remainder. Iran will ship to China to earn yuan. Saudi Arabia is not a US ally anymore because the US cannot protect it. Brazil is a major exporter of oil to China.
Another key factor to keep the world on edge regarding oil and refining is Russia too has lost approximately 1.5 million barrels of production and refining capacity of late due to the accelerating drone attacks from Ukraine of late.
“His mental faculties are clearing showing a decline when his Truth Social posts are deprecating the new Iranian leadership in Tehran and the representatives in Switzerland, then threatening the latter with assassinations which is most likely a war crime; and if not, it is certainly only provides Iran with more grist for the mill against Trump and the US.”
To be fair, if the standards laid down at Nuremberg were applied fairly, every US President from Truman on would hang.
“Another key factor to keep the world on edge regarding oil and refining is Russia too has lost approximately 1.5 million barrels of production and refining capacity of late due to the accelerating drone attacks from Ukraine of late.”
:”Ukraine”. Ukraine isn’t the one doing this.
Thank you for agreeing with me.
And if Trump holds out too much longer, Reconciliation Act 3.0 will die on the vine along with more military funding to replenish weapons wasted in his foolish war on Iran that he lost.
That is what I am hoping for. Without funding, and without weapons, Trump will not restart the war in Iran.
Perhaps that is his aim so he can blame others for not being able to finish what he started. He’ll keep talking tough on Iran and wait for others to stop him. Lets face it the buck will never stop with Trump. He has no idea how to take responsibility for anything.
Seem were kind of at a pearl harbor moment. Were the battle ships were destroyed letting the military replace them with aircraft carriers. In this moment we need to study ukraine and replace expensive missiles with cheap drones.
Two Mikes interesting.
It’s the correct analysis. It will pass without his signature, it will pass if he vetoes it since it already surpassed the votes required to override.
They could remove far more regulations from the onerous building code. My house, built in 1978, is a zillion miles from current code. And will remain so. And it will stand 50 more years with no need to bring up to current code. And there are millions of homes just like it. I guess it’s okay for millions of homes to not fit within the weighty codes of today….proving they are not required for the home to be relatively safe. In the aircraft world, if the new code truly were required for safety the FAA would require retrofit. But in the housing world it would be stupid to require I have 25 more electric outlets in the house because 2026 code stipulates. What a waste of copper and expensive electrician time to require such stuff. Many would opt for it anway but what if they were given a choice and saved money as a result, would the house fall or burn down? Nope.
The only question is whether the President will sign it or just let it become law, I’m guessing the latter.
I think Trump will be impeached like Nixon, too many fuckups and abuses of power.
Nixon wasn’t impeached. However, the orange shitstain can certainly be impeached like the orange shitstain who has already been twice impeached. But that would require a Democratic House, since there is a plethora of shitstain sycophants in Congress presently.
Nixon had political commonsense and could count that he didn’t have the votes, particularly after Goldwater, et al., informed him that he didn’t have the votes in the Senate for acquittal.
Trump has made it a signature move to not back down where Nixon did, in many ways. It may seem weird, but Nixon took a lot of laws and institutions seriously, if not with complete consistency. One can often hear the lawyer in him. But part of him got loosey goosey with monitoring his team of dirty tricksters, who devised and executed virtually all of the weird illegal stuff. I think it was his side that developed in WW2 where he learned to cuss, drink and play poker for profit (and evade regulations to stockpile treats he could dispense).
Nixon’s sole redeeming quality.
He can be impeached an unlimited number of times (he’s already been so before). But removed from office is something else entirely and unlikely to happen without a big fight that would effectively paralyze the country while it happened (Nixon resigned to avoid that, he was never impeached).
Far easier to just marginalize him and his impact over the final 2 years and the easiest way is to cut a deal with him that he gets to finish his ballroom and host some galas and in return he doesn’t get impeached and he doesn’t issue a bunch of silly executive orders (tariffs and the like).
The death nail for the republican party would be if the dems come in and solve some problems. Actual immigration reform/ actually balance the budget etc/ campaign finance reform./ stock trades by politicians etc/ actually fix the things republicans have been not fixing for years.
Those issues you mention predate the current Republican congress/senate control.
They’ve been around a long time and when you think about it there is an incentive NOT to fix some of it (campaign finance, politicians making stock trades) and potentially all of it (so they can always use it to rile up their base as needed and to pretend to be doing something while in fact they do not much of anything).
But New York Dems are voting for full blown socialists. I don’t think the Cuban or Venezuelan way is to solve the things you mentioned.
I’ve been hearing that since 999 fuck ups and abuses of power ago…
TL:DR one of Trump’s rich PE buddies made a phone call.
He is becoming desperate and erratic as he realizes he’s looking at years of congressional inquiries starting in November. He’s throwing every off the ship now to keep it from sinking. My guess is he realized it a month ago when Iran pinned him down, its been nothing but desperation since then
I agree with Mish that its payback time from the Senate
Gonna get uglier.
Nothing a little super glue and gilded appliqués can’t gussy up.
I think he’s more concerned about what history will say. He thinks he can remake America in his image.
If you think about it America is like Trump.
When you’re in that position and make these comments, you’re a dictator trying to hold onto power, country be damned.
Yes and that’s why my tagline becomes truer each passing day…
Do worry, Trump & Walrus will find a way to make things even worse.™
Excellent post as usual.