Trump Refuses to Sign Affordable Housing Bill, Calls for GOP-Led Senate to Pass SAVE Act

Senate Republicans were angered at President Donald J. Trump for his refusal to sign an affordable housing package filled with many of his priorities.

The president announced that he would not sign the bill, instead telling Senate Republicans that they must pass the Safeguarding American Voting Eligibility Act, or SAVE Act, which, at this point, according to Fox News Digital, does not have the votes to pass the Senate.

"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 said on Truth Social.

The sudden decision had some Republicans accusing Trump of handing Democrats a victory.

"There is a huge group of people who really appreciate what the president's doing right now, and it's the Democratic Party," U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, said. "And we've got to get our act together and stop surprising people and start having … working messages.

"This housing bill was a very clear, bipartisan effort to address some of the basics of affordability, and we are here," he continued. "It makes no sense."