The House has officially shipped a colossal bipartisan housing package to President Donald Trump, and lawmakers are hoping that, at the very least, he doesn’t veto it.Trump was supposed to sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act last week, but his last-minute decision to ghost the signing ceremony with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., put into question whether the bill was dead.His refusal to sign the bill, which passed with overwhelmingly bipartisan support in both chambers, was to leverage the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, which doesn’t currently have the votes to succeed in the Senate.WARREN TELLS TRUMP TO 'SIGN THE DAMN BILL' AS BIPARTISAN HOUSING PACKAGE REMAINS STALLED IN WASHINGTONTrump has refused to sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act.(Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Trump appears to be in no hurry to sign the bill, despite Republicans who are hungry for a win in the affordability fight ahead of the midterm elections."It's so unimportant … compared to the SAVE America Act," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.
"I think the SAVE America Act is exactly what it says.It's saving America from crooked elections.""Here's what I would like to sign, much more than a bill that — big deal, it's a yawn," he continued.
"Some people say it's wonderful.To me, compared to the SAVE America Act, just about everything is a big yawn."GOP INFIGHTING OVER TRUMP'S VOTER ID BILL ERUPTS AS TOP SENATOR CALLS STRATEGY 'FANTASY'It's legislation that is loaded with nearly 60 provisions from both sides of the aisle in both chambers that's designed to make it easier for homes to be built and for younger Americans to buy their first home.
It also includes a ban on hedge funds buying up housing stock that Trump pushed Congress to include during the State of the Union earlier this year.Sen.Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., one of the architects behind the bill in the upper cha...