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Anderson Cooper 360

Trump Refuses to Sign Housing Bill, Demands Action on Voting Bill

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today, the President threw down the political gauntlet with his own party. He was set to sign a landmark bipartisan housing bill that Republicans hoped to run on this fall. However, less than two hours before the planned signing, President Trump announced he was canceling the signing until he gets action on his controversial elections overhaul legislation. Plus, the latest on the deadly heatwave hitting France and other parts of Europe.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Good evening from the newsroom. President Trump is soon taking the stage to kick off the Great American State Fair on the National Mall. Tonight's festivities are being billed as a celebration that will, quote, bring together Americans from across the country. Comes on a day when the president threw down the political gauntlet with his own party. He was set to sign a landmark bipartisan housing bill. The Republicans hoped to run on this fall, his own White House press secretary Carolyn Levitt late last night called it, quote, one of the

0:57.2

most significant pieces of housing affordability legislation in American history.

1:02.1

She went on to say, quote, tomorrow's historic bill signing is another promise made, promise

1:06.8

kept.

1:08.1

If that was a true statement, then today a promise was broken. He canceled the

1:12.2

signing. Posting this on social media, quote, today's housing news conference and signing is

1:17.2

hereby canceled until such time as we pass the desperately needed Save America Act, which

1:22.3

I consider to be a national emergency. The Save America Act, which critics say will make it

1:26.7

harder for millions of Americans to vote, has become the legislative priority for President Trump. Even his allies contended,

1:32.9

has no chance of passing the Senate. He canceled the housing bill signing just 90 minutes

1:37.9

before the ceremony. There was a podium set up a desk, both with the presidential seal already

1:43.0

there. House GOP leadership was in the middle of a press conference, actually, touting the bill at the

1:48.0

very moment the president canceled his plans to actually sign it.

1:53.0

Let's show the American people how you bring together and do something on a bicameral basis.

1:58.0

And we did that, and we did that in conjunction with President Trump

2:02.4

and his priorities. Well, the bill, as I mentioned, has bipartisan support in the Senate. Republican

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