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Trump takes unusual step, lets bipartisan housing bill become law unsigned amid SAVE pressure campaign
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A bipartisan housing bill became law Saturday at midnight after President Donald Trump declined to sign it, capping a weeks-long saga over whether the president would veto the measure amid frustrations with Congress over his stalled agenda.
Trump refused to sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act — legislation aimed at expanding the nation’s housing stock and lowering costs — in an attempt to pressure Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, despite the housing bill clearing both chambers with overwhelming majorities.
«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, which is polling at 97% with the Republican Party, and very high with the non-politician Dumocrats,» he declared on Truth Social Friday morning.
The Trump-backed election measure, which would require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections and impose voter ID requirements, has struggled to overcome the Senate’s 60-vote threshold.
Meanwhile, the House has not passed a version of the bill that includes the president’s proposed crackdown on mail-in voting and banning men from women’s sports.
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, June 3, 2026, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP)
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Under the U.S. Constitution, Trump had 10 days, not including Sundays, to sign or veto the housing measure after the House formally transmitted the legislation to the White House in late June. The president ultimately chose neither option, allowing the measure to become law without his signature.
Though Trump declined to veto the legislation, he sharply criticized elements of the bill and argued it should not have been a legislative priority in recent weeks.
«It’s so unimportant … compared to the SAVE America Act,» Trump told reporters in the Oval Office in late June. «I think the SAVE America Act is exactly what it says. It’s saving America from crooked elections.»
Trump went on to call the housing bill «a yawn,» adding, «compared to the SAVE America Act, just about everything is a big yawn.»
It would have taken a two-thirds majority in both chambers to override a veto — a margin the House and Senate exceeded when they passed the legislation. However, it remains unclear whether so many Republicans would have defied the president had he vetoed the bill.
Trump also appeared to criticize the bill over a provision restricting Wall Street investors from purchasing single-family homes — a policy he first proposed during his January State of the Union address and later urged Congress to pass. Trump previously argued the investor ban would give individual homebuyers a leg up against private equity firms in the housing market.
«I don’t want to hurt people that own houses, too,» Trump later told reporters, appearing to reference the provision. «These people, for the first time in their lives, they have valuable houses. They’ve become rich. I don’t want to hurt them either. What you want to do is what’s good for everyone, get the interest rates down.»
The law also aims to boost housing supply by streamlining federal environmental reviews, loosening rules around the construction of factory-built homes, and incentivizing local governments to modify their zoning laws to allow more housing, among roughly 60 provisions.
Trump’s souring on the legislation created headaches for Republicans, who touted the bill as an affordability win as voters grapple with high housing costs.
«It’s irresponsible to postpone signing the Housing bill due to the SAVE Act,» Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., a retiring lawmaker who lost re-election to a Trump-backed challenger, wrote on social media. «We need to start delivering relief to people for the high cost of housing ASAP!!»
Construction workers stand on the roof of homes under construction at a new housing development on June 24, 2026, in Valencia, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Trump abruptly canceled a signing ceremony for the legislation at the U.S. Capitol in June with GOP leaders. The stage had already been set, with at least one senior Republican arriving unaware the president had called off the event shortly before it was scheduled to begin.
The president then declared he would not sign the legislation until Congress passed the SAVE America Act, despite Senate GOP leaders insisting the votes do not exist to advance the measure.
Trump has also expressed frustration with the Republican-controlled Senate for declining to weaken the legislative filibuster, which requires 60 votes to advance most legislation in the upper chamber.
«GET SMART REPUBLICANS, IF YOU DON’T, YOU WON’T BE IN OFFICE FOR LONG!» Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday.
Before Trump came out against the bill, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called it «one of the most significant pieces of housing affordability legislation in American history» and said it included an array of policies «long championed» by Trump.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 15, 2025. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Meanwhile, Trump political operative James Blair touted the legislation for including the president’s Wall Street investor ban, which he referred to as a «signature commitment.»
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has argued that Republicans will still promote the landmark housing bill ahead of November.
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«We’ll still celebrate it, but he’s trying to make a point, and I think he’s making it very effectively,» the speaker recently told reporters, referring to Trump. «And the fact that you all ask me every three steps down the hallway illustrates that he has achieved the desired objective, and that is to make SAVE America the number one thing, because if we don’t get that right, everybody’s concerned about what happens next.»
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‘Friday Follies’: What happened to Little Italy on Mamdani’s map?
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«Die Hard» actor Robert Davi blasted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani Friday after a city map highlighting immigrant enclaves omitted Little Italy.
The «New York City Immigrant Enclaves» map resurfaced on social media earlier this week after users pointed out it omitted Little Italy, as well as historically Jewish and Irish neighborhoods, despite highlighting 30 immigrant communities across the five boroughs.
Following criticism from Italian-American groups, the city said it plans to update the map to include Little Italy.
MAMDANI DEFENDS CONTROVERSIAL NYC MAP AFTER OMITTING ICONIC LITTLE ITALY, JEWISH AND IRISH NEIGHBORHOODS
Actor Robert Davi, left, criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, right, after the city’s immigrant enclaves map initially omitted Little Italy. (Erika Goldring/Getty Images; Heather Khalifa/AP Photo)
Davi, who was born in Astoria, Queens, lashed out at Mamdani in a video posted on X, calling him a «jerk» for snubbing Little Italy.
«I hope every New York Italian American and Irish American spits on you when they see you,» Davi said. «I would spit on you if I saw you. Shame on you, you garbage man. Shame on you. Respect the city you’re in and understand the people who helped build it.»
«My grandparents came from Sicily and Naples and they taught me, speak the English. This is America. God bless America,» the 75-year-old «Licence to Kill» actor said.
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Robert Davi in 1988’s «Die Hard.»
«My grandfather enlisted in World War I and got wounded three times … he helped build New York City as an immigrant, an Italian immigrant,» he continued.
The veteran actor also suggested the mayor, whom he described as a «leftist Marxist Communist,» leave the United States.
«Go back to where you were born, Mamdani,» Davi said. «You don’t belong in America.»
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Little Italy in Manhattan was omitted from New York City’s immigrant enclave map, prompting backlash before Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the neighborhood would be added. (Dosfotos/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, and moved to the United States when he was 7 years old.
Davi also suggested there should be a constitutional amendment preventing Mamdani from running for public office.
«You should spend time in America, at least a generation, especially those of you that come from a country that has a totally different philosophical ideology bent,» he said.
The mayor’s office previously directed Fox News Digital to remarks Mamdani made during an unrelated press conference Friday, where he defended the map and said it had originally been created under the previous administration in 2023.
«This map was initially created by the prior administration in 2023, and when we inherited it, we added a few additional neighborhoods,» Mamdani said. «It’s clearly not an exhaustive list of the more than 200 ethnic communities that call our city home, and we’re going to be making additional changes in the future to reflect that and that includes Little Italy.»
Fox News Digital has reached out to Mamdani’s office for comment.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a primary-night watch party for congressional candidate Claire Valdez at 99 Scott Studio on June 23, 2026 in Brooklyn. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
According to the Library of Congress, more than 4 million Italians immigrated to the United States between the 1880s and 1924, with roughly one-third settling in New York City.
Fox News Digital’s Brittany Miller contributed to this report.
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Robert Brovdi, jefe de las fuerzas sin piloto (drones) del Ejército ucraniano anunció este sábado que sus hombres hundieron o inutilizaron en los últimos días 28 buques rusos. Son 21 petroleros, varios mercantes y remolcadores. Ucrania intenta aislar la provincia de Crimea, legalmente suya pero anexionada por Rusia desde 2014.
La conexión entre Rusia y Crimea se hace por tierra por territorio ocupado en Ucrania. Kiev fue consiguiendo en los últimos meses hacer cada vez más arriesgada esa ruta terrestre y en las últimas semanas la tiene prácticamente bloqueada con sus drones, que atacan camiones y otros vehículos.
Ante la situación en Crimea, Rusia aumentó el número de buques que llegan desde sus puertos hasta el de Sebastopol, en Crimea, pero Ucrania respondió con un uso masivo de drones marinos y aéreos de ataque para entorpecer esa tránsito. Según varios cables de agencia, el sábado por la tarde apenas había tráfico marítimo por la región, prueba del éxito de la estrategia ucraniana.
Broydi dijo que sus fuerzas habían alcanzado 28 buques rusos sin especificar cuántos habían sido hundidos y cuántos quedaron inutilizados o tuvieron que ser remolcados de vuelta a sus puertos en Rusia. Ucrania también anunció ataques sobre Crimea, “sobre todo contra navíos e instalaciones energéticas”. Rusia pena para suministrar a Crimea todo el combustible que necesita, tanto para la vida civil como para las actividades de su Ejército en la región.
Mientas, Rusia sigue atacando Kiev con misiles. Este sábado hubo, según comunicó el presidente ucraniano Volodimir Zelensky en su cuenta de Telegram, 11 heridos. Las primeras explosiones llegaron, de forma poco habitual, antes de que sonaran las sirenas aéreas. El Gobierno ucraniano asegura que eso se debe a que Rusia estaría utilizando sistemas de misiles antiaéreos S-400 como si fueran misiles tierra-tierra.
Los ataques rusos se redujeron sustancialmente a principios de semana coincidiendo con la cumbre de la OTAN en Ankara, lo que para varios diplomáticos europeos es una pauta que se repite siempre antes y durante cumbres de la OTAN y de la Unión Europea. Estiman que Rusia reduce o detiene sus ataques porque de lo contrario es más probable la aprobación de nuevas sanciones.
Según Ucrania, la noche del viernes al sábado llovieron sobre el país seis misiles balísticos Iskander M/S-400 (tienen capacidad de llevar cabezas nucleares), varios misiles de crucero X-59/69 y dos misiles antiradar X31. De los 121 drones lanzados por Rusia, Ucrania asegura haber derribado 111. También hubo ataques contra la ciudad costera de Odessa.
Los cancilleres europeos deberían aprobar este lunes el vigésimo primer paquete de sanciones a Rusia desde que Moscú lanzó la guerra de agresión contra Ucrania la noche del 23 al 24 de febrero de 2022. Diplomáticos europeos siguen negociando este fin de semana para que los cancilleres lo validen este lunes, pero sigue haciendo dudas en algunos puntos.
Algunos países se resisten todavía a imponer nuevas restricciones al gas natural licuado ruso, que sigue entrando en Europa por puertos de Holanda, Bélgica, Francia y España. La Comisión Europea pretendía incluir por primera vez entre los sancionados al patriarca de la Iglesia Ortodoxa rusa Kiril, algo que la Hungría de Viktor Orban siempre había vetado. Pero fuentes diplomáticas cuentan que está prácticamente descartado por la negativa de Bulgaria (país de confesión cristiana ortodoxa que respeta la autoridad de Kiril) y en menor medida de Italia.
Kiril estuvo a punto de ser sancionado en 2022. Desde entonces Hungría mantuvo el bloqueo hasta que hace dos meses cambió el gobierno en Budapest y a Orban le sucedió Peter Magyar. La Unión Europea y la mayoría de sus países considera que Kiril es parte del esfuerzo de guerra ruso contra Ucrania por sus declaraciones incendiarias sobre el conflicto.
En sus sermones ha asegurado que el conflicto es una batalla espiritual entre Rusia y un Occidente moralmente decadente, que morir en la guerra sería para “limpiar todos los pecados” y que la agresión rusa contra Ucrania es “una guerra santa”. En 2022 el Papa Francisco le dijo que no debía convertirse en un “monaguillo del Estado”.
Los países europeos que defienden que no se le sancione aseguran que sus palabras, en el fondo, quedan dentro de la libertad de religiosa y que se sentaría un precedente peligroso. También son países que tradicionalmente mantuvieron buenas relaciones con Rusia y que nunca han sido de los más voluntariosos a la hora de sancionar a Moscú.
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Beloved musicians among victims in deadly Bahamas plane crash; aviation authority grounds flights
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A devastating double aviation crisis in the Bahamas, including a deadly North Andros plane crash and a separate aircraft fire Friday, prompted the government to suspend flight operations for a local airline and launch a federal safety probe.
Shortly after 1 p.m. Friday, a Cessna 402 aircraft with Bahamian registration departed Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau bound for San Andros Airport.
The Aircraft Accident Investigation Authority (AAIA) said the plane «encountered difficulties» and crashed into bushes prior to landing.
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Authorities said 10 people were killed in a Bahamas plane crash Friday. (Our News Bahamas via AP)
First responders, including the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Airport Authority and emergency medical personnel, rushed to the dense brush where the aircraft went down.
The Bahamas Musicians and Entertainers Union confirmed in a statement Saturday that 10 people died in the crash, including prominent members of the Da Pond Band and a local DJ, whose artistry the union said «touched so many lives and helped to enrich the cultural fabric of The Bahamas.»
Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Brave Davis said a sole survivor was pulled from the wreckage.
«Ann and I are praying for the families who are now facing unbearable grief,» Davis wrote in a statement on X. «We are also praying for the survivor, whose recovery and care will remain in our thoughts.»
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The identities of those killed in the crash have not yet been released.
While the AAIA’s preliminary reports initially indicated seven people were on board, officials are still establishing the facts of the flight manifest.
Just hours before the fatal crash in North Andros, a Flamingo Air flight en route to Mayaguana was forced to turn back to Nassau after the pilot reported a concern, according to the Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Aviation (MoET).
After the aircraft landed and passengers safely deplaned, the plane caught fire on the runway.
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The Civil Aviation Authority Bahamas temporarily suspended Flamingo Air’s air operator certificate following two aircraft incidents Friday. (iStock)
After the two back-to-back safety incidents, the Civil Aviation Authority Bahamas (CAAB) temporarily suspended Flamingo Air’s air operator certificate, according to MoET officials.
«The suspension is a precautionary safety measure and should not be treated as an adverse compliance action against Flamingo Air,» the agency wrote in a statement.
The plane crashed in North Andros Friday after taking off from Lynden Pindling International Airport. (Melissa Alcena/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Investigators from the AAIA and inspectors from the CAAB remain at the crash site in North Andros as they work to determine what caused the Cessna 402 tragedy.
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Flamingo Air did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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