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Trump Made Save Act Ultimatum, Senate Leaves It Unanswered 28%
By Giulia Carbonaro9%
6/25/2026, 9:21:19 AM
Topics: Donald Trump, Voting Rights, Save Act, Senate, Housing Bill, Housing, 21st Road To Housing Act
Keywords: Donald Trump, Voting Rights, Save Act, Senate, Housing Bill, Housing, 21st Road To Housing Act
BS Summary: This article contains 32 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 19.3% saturation with 221 hits. Analysis detected 1,804 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,143 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 38.9% and a BS Rank of 28% (15,800 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 72.20% of the article peer group.
President Donald Trump has demanded that Congress pass the SAVE Act before agreeing to sign the biggest housing affordability bill in decades.
However, his request is likely to remain unanswered as the Senate will not debate on legislation until July 13.
Senate Majority John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, requested on Wednesday to adjourn the Senate for the July 4 recess and not return for votes until July 13.
“I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stands adjourned to then convene for pro forma sessions only with no business being conducted [...]
And when the Senate adjourns on Thursday, July 9, it stands adjourned until 3pm on Monday, July 13,” Thune told the chamber.
Pro forma sessions are brief, routine meetings during which lawmakers do not hold votes and no formal legislation is debated.
Thune’s request was unanimously approved, with no senator objecting.
That means that there is no chance that the Senate will sit down to discuss passing the SAVE Act before July 13, when it will reconvene for a few sessions before going into recess again in August.
Trump’s Ultimatum Falling On Deaf Ears
The 21st Century Road to Housing—a sweeping housing reform package promising to lower housing costs for millions of Americans—passed the Senate on Monday with overwhelming bipartisan support (85-5) and was given final approval by the House with a 358-32 vote on Tuesday.
But when it finally reached the president, Trump surprised lawmakers by refusing to sign the bill.
Ahead of a planned signing ceremony, the president wrote on Truth Social that the event was “cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE America Act, which I consider to be a national emergency.”
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which Trump has been pushing for despite setbacks in Congress, would introduce significant voter ID requirements which the president said are crucial to strengthen the legitimacy of political elections in the U.S., but opponents say would exclude many Americans from the democratic process.
Many lawmakers, including some who had showed up for the signing ceremony only to be told the event was cancelled, were taken aback by the president’s sudden change of mind.
“This just doesn’t make any sense other than whatever it is he wants to do, it’s a complete indifference to the cost squeeze on American families,” Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, who co-sponsored the bill, said on Wednesday.
But some have expressed cautious hope that Trump would still sign the housing bill.
“That was his call to make,” Thune told CNN before a planned lunch with Senate Republicans and the president on Wednesday.
“What I would say is that the bill is a bill that’s been worked on for a long time.
It’s an affordability issue, and eventually I hope he’ll find his way to sign it.”
What this way might be is unclear, as the Senate is not in a rush to listen to Trump’s appeal—to the disgruntlement of the president’s ally in the chamber.
Two Bills In Limbo—And Trump’s Allies Frustration
Senator Mike Lee, a Utah Republican and a MAGA champion, expressed his frustration about the Senate’s recess, which leaves both the 21st ROAD to Housing Act and the SAVE Act in limbo.
“We do have a lot to do, a lot of work that needs to be done.
The SAVE America Act really does need to be passed.
Why are we taking a recess right now?
Why on earth is the Senate wanting to recess for two weeks?”
he asked in a video shared on social media on Wednesday.
“We should finish our work,” he added.
“We should do all we possibly can to pass the SAVE America Act instead of recessing for two weeks, only to come back and work for a few weeks and then recess for another five or six weeks after that.”
The post including the video, which said that passing the SAVE Act would be the best way to celebrate the U.S. 250th birthday, was shared by Trump on Wednesday on his social media platform.
Senator Tommy Tuberville, an Alabama Republican, expressed a similar feeling to Lee, writing on X: “The Senate is about to recess for TWO WEEKS.
In August, we’re leaving for OVER A MONTH.
There is PLENTY of time to pass the SAVE America Act.”
Newsweek contacted Lee’s and Tuberville’s offices, as well as the White House, for comment by email on Thursday morning.
Significantly, Lee and Tuberville are among only five Republicans who voted against the housing affordability bill in the Senate.
Tuberville claimed that it is not fiscally responsible with the country being $39 trillion in debt, alleging on social media that the package “writes a blank check to blue cities, which we all know will end up going to illegals, not American citizens.”
In a note after his “nay” vote, Lee said that the bill did not tackle affordability as it should have.
“Americans need more affordable housing.
Unfortunately, this bill doesn’t do enough to provide it, instead increasing the federal government’s long-running and failed involvement in the U.S. housing market,” he wrote.
The other Republican senators who voted against the 21st ROAD to Housing Act were Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Rick Scott of Florida.
No Clear Resolution
There is a reason why the SAVE Act has not managed to pass Congress until now, even with Trump championing the cause and keeping it in the spotlight for the past few months.
Republicans just do not think they have enough support to get the measure over the finish line, considering some among their ranks have previously joined Democrats to oppose the package.
Even if lawmakers were willing to get back to negotiate the SAVE Act now, it would be a likely uphill battle.
But with the Senate having adjourned until July 13, it will be weeks before the lawmakers even take Trump’s demand into consideration.
The Senate will be meeting for pro forma sessions on:
Thursday, June 25 at 9:00 a.m.
Monday, June 29 at 3:45 p.m.
Thursday July 2 at 12:30 p.m.
Monday July 6 at 9:00 a.m.
Thursday July 9 at 4:00 p.m.
The next time senators will convene to vote will be on July 13.
The House, on the other hand, passed a version of the SAVE Act in February on a near party-line vote.
The lower chamber will take a summer recess starting in late July.
The housing bill could still become law without Trump’s signature, if he does not veto it within ten days while Congress is in session.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said that he believes “there are probably enough votes in both houses to override that veto” if Trump does veto the bill, as reported by NBC News.
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