Trump Administration Live Updates: President Refuses to Sign Housing Bill, in Protest Over Stalled Voting Measure
"What We’re Covering Today
Housing Bill: President Trump said on Friday that he would not sign a major bipartisan housing bill, a decision he framed as a protest against Senate Republicans for failing to pass a voting restriction bill. The housing measure will become law without his signature at midnight unless he vetoes it, which he did not say he would do. Read more ›
Iran War: President Trump said in a social media post on Friday that he had agreed to continue negotiating with Iran but that the cease-fire remained “over.” Qatar, which helped broker the U.S.-Iran truce last month, has been in talks with Washington and Tehran to try to pull them back from the brink of renewed war, according to two officials with knowledge of the matter. Read more ›
Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, accused Trump of dismissing the affordability concerns of American voters. “His priorities couldn’t be clearer: higher costs for families and more power for himself,” Schumer said in a social media post.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts who backed the housing bill, blasted President Trump on Friday and his refusal to sign the legislation.
“Donald Trump cares so little about bringing down YOUR housing costs that he’s refusing to sign the biggest housing bill in 30 years,” Warren wrote on social media. “The good news: it’s going to become law anyway.”
President Trump said on Friday that he would not sign a major bipartisan housing bill, a decision he framed as a protest against Senate Republicans for failing to pass an unrelated voting restriction bill that does not have enough support to clear the Senate.
“I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media, referring to the elections bill.
U.S. forces sharply ramped up their attacks against Iran this week, hitting more than 170 Iranian military targets on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Pentagon said. It was one of the most intense rounds of strikes since the war began more than four months ago.
Analysts said the Trump administration was sending a pointed message to the government in Tehran that the United States was willing to broaden its mission again and hit sites that have both military and civilian uses.
President Trump said in a social media post on Friday that he had agreed to continue negotiating with Iran, but that the cease-fire remained broken, indicating that hostilities could continue.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has asked us to continue ‘talks,'” Trump wrote. “We have agreed to do so, but the United States has stated to them, in no uncertain terms, that the Cease Fire is OVER!”
Regional mediators were rushing on Friday to pull the United States and Iran back from the brink of renewed war, as days of strikes by the two countries appeared to settle into an uneasy pause.
Qatar, which helped broker the U.S.-Iran truce last month, has been in talks with Washington and Tehran to de-escalate the crisis, according to three officials with knowledge of the matter, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy. Two of them said on Friday that a Qatari delegation was in Iran as part of those efforts.
The Trump administration has forced out the three remaining members of an independent, bipartisan commission that supports states in administering their elections, the White House confirmed on Thursday. The move comes as President Trump seeks to cast doubt on the outcome of the upcoming midterms and impose control over how ballots are counted.
Mr. Trump terminated, effective immediately, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland, two members selected by congressional Democrats to serve on the Election Assistance Commission, and accepted the resignation of a Republican member, Christy McCormick.
The board has no other remaining members, as its fourth commissioner resigned this spring.
Palm Beach International Airport in Florida is now President Donald J. Trump International Airport.
The name change became official on Thursday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration announced. Eric Trump, Mr. Trump’s son and the executive vice president of the Trump Organization, shared a video on social media in which an air traffic controller is heard announcing the name change to the pilots of the president’s private Boeing 757 as it approached the airport for a landing just after 5 a.m."
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