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.”
Do you think trump is aware that he can’t stonewall that bill for very long?
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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.
Or, He and his toady chorus are completely unaware of the ten day rule
Anyone else confident they won’t?
More like ‘cautiously optimistic’. This is Congress we’re talking about.
and there hasn’t been a pocket veto since gwb.
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:
“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.