President Donald Trump on Wednesday cancelled plans to sign bipartisan housing legislation in a fit of pique over Republican senators’ refusal to blow up their chamber’s rules to pass his voter ID bill.
The president had been set to sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act in a rare Capitol signing ceremony at noon on Wednesday before attending a Senate Republican Steering Committee lunch.
But with less than an hour remaining until he was scheduled to leave the White House, he took to Truth Social to announce that the ceremony was “hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT.”
Wroth mentioning: the housing bill is veto-proof.
No one tell him it will become law in 10 days if he does nothing.
I thought it was the opposite; pocket veto?
And these days, Congress never officially adjourns. Even when they’re on vacation, a few legislators will come in every few days to hold a 30 second pro forma session to prevent recess appointments or pocket vetoes. It also gets around a clause in the Constitution, “that neither chamber can adjourn for more than three days without the consent of the other.” The House will be damned if they have to ask the Senate for permission to go home, and vice versa.
Boy the US government is built on a foundation of wildly stupid loopholes
I was about to say. I knew it was stupid but I think I underestimated how.
Unfortunately. The US legal system covers only what’s illegal; not what’s legal.
Congress will just not stay in session to avoid offending him
Watch Mike Johnson adjourn Congress to stop this.
That’s an mj move 100%
Thank you; been a while since I had to think about that one and oddly enough Lemmy is loading better than Google out here on vacation.
Pocket veto only applies when Congress is in recess I believe.