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The Housing Bill Trump Won't Sign

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Liz Wolfe | 6.26.2026 9:30 AM

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A decent start: On Wednesday, President Donald Trump canceled his plans to sign a shockingly decent housing bill that had passed both House and Senate. It's not clear whether this is a stunt designed to get voter ID laws passed or whether he intends to sign the bill eventually.

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"Under the Constitution, a president has 10 days, excluding Sundays, to sign or return a bill once it has been presented to him. If he has not done either by the end of that period, it becomes law without his signature," reports The New York Times. "But there's a catch. If Congress is adjourned when that 10-day period ends, the unsigned bill is killed in what is known as a 'pocket veto.' There are legal questions about whether this would happen during a congressional recess—when the chambers are out of session temporarily, as the House and the Senate are scheduled to be for 10 days beginning on July 3—or only when Congress is adjourned at the end of a session, which will not happen until the end of the........

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