Trump Expresses Little Interest in Housing Bill, Prioritizes Voting Restrictions

President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters he has barely any interest in the bipartisan housing bill that is headed to his desk — or anything else as long as Congress refuses to pass the partisan voting restriction bill he has obsessed over for months.

Speaking in the Oval Office during a signing ceremony for an executive order related to car repairs, Trump implied he’d allow the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act to become law when it is send to him by House Speaker Mike Johnson this week.

But he said he’d much rather be signing the SAVE America Act, the anti-postal-voting and voter ID bill he has been unsuccessfully championing for much of his second term.

“Compared to the Save America Act, just about everything is a big yawn,” he said.

The president’s comments came hours after he lashed out at the Supreme Court on social media after five of the conservative-led court’s nine justices said federal law did not preempt Mississippi’s law allowing mail-in ballots received after Election Day to count if postmarked before Election Day.

Trump has spent years railing against mail-in voting dating back to the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden in part because Democratic-leaning voters cast ballots by mail, allowing Biden to overtake him in the vote count in multiple swing states.

He told reporters that the decision “gives people more time to vote illegally” even though there is no evidence that postal balloting is a vector for election fraud of any kind.

“I think, it was very detrimental to honest elections, but it is what it is,” he said.

The president cited a 2005 report by the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform which warned that postal balloting could be a “source of potential voter fraud” while falsely alleging that the report had identified it as a definitive source of “cheating.”

He also accused Democrats of being in favor of “cheating” and said the opposition cannot win without it “because their policy is so bad.”

“How do you vote against Save America? How do you vote against it? How do you vote against voter identification or proof of citizenship? The only people that would vote against that are people that are going to cheat in an election,” he said.

Last week, Trump angrily cancelled plans to sign the bipartisan housing bill at a Capitol Hill ceremony meant to showcase his party’s work on cost-of-living issues in a fit of pique over Republican senators’ refusal to blow up their chamber’s rules to pass his voter ID bill.

He reiterated his demand for senators to eliminate the upper chamber’s filibuster to pass the anti-voting legislation — or for Senate Majority Leader John Thune to fire the nonpartisan parliamentarian who has ruled that the bill can’t be included in spending legislation passed under fast-track “reconciliation” rules.

“I can't imagine why you keep a woman that was put there by Harry Reid and Barack Hussein Obama. I cannot understand it. The leader has the right to fire the person at will and put somebody else there, that would be because we get so many negative rulings from her, the parliamentarian. She's been there for years, and she was put there by Harry Reid and Barack Hussein Obama,” he said.

He added that one of the GOP senators opposed to the legislation — Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — is “Trump-deranged” and said it was “crazy” that any Republican would vote against the bill.