Trump meets Republican senators after canceling housing bill signing
Trump scrapped a housing bill signing and then faced a tense Republican meeting as a fight over Iran and the SAVE Act exposed his sway over the Senate.
Donald Trump met Republican senators at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, after canceling a planned signing ceremony for the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, just after Congress sent the housing package to his desk.
The legislation cleared the Senate 85-5 on Monday, June 22, and the House 358-32 on Tuesday, June 23, after months of negotiation and revisions in both chambers. It is Congress’ first comprehensive housing legislation in decades. The measure is designed to expand housing supply, improve affordability, and widen access to homeownership and credit, while also imposing the first-ever legal limits on large investors buying single-family homes.
Trump had earlier pushed lawmakers to add a crackdown on private-equity and Wall Street purchases of single-family houses, and the White House had supported that housing-policy push earlier in the year. But in the days before the Capitol meeting, Trump objected to the bipartisan bill and pressed Republicans to move his preferred voting legislation, the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship for all voters. Senate Republicans say that measure does not have the votes to pass in the current Congress.
Inside the meeting, the tension spilled over into a separate fight over the Iran war powers resolution. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Trump clashed sharply, with Trump telling Cassidy to sit down and Cassidy initially telling Trump he should sit down. Cassidy later said, “I lost my temper,” and defended his criticism by saying he was standing up for the American people and that the Senate needed more information about the conflict with Iran.
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska arrived late and questioned Trump’s decision not to sign the housing bill, telling him it was not helpful to the country or to him. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the housing bill had been worked on for a long time and called it a strong affordability measure, and said he hoped Trump would eventually sign it.
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