CNN's Harry Enten shrieked in mock terror at President Donald Trump's abrupt about-face on signing a bipartisan affordable-housing bill to knuckle down on his bill to impose new restrictions on voting.
The 80-year-old president caught lawmakers and staffers off guard by announcing just over an hour before the signing ceremony that he would not add his signature to the law until Congress passed his SAVE America Act, and the chief data analyst told "CNN News Central" that Republicans are likely horrified.
"You know, if Iwas a Republican member of Congress and I amlistening to President Trump, the only words thatenter my mind are, 'Oh God, oh God, no, what are youdoing?'" Enten wailed. "That is because the issue has not goneaway at all. Google searches for affordability, look at this, up 500 percent this week versus the pre-2026average. In fact, they reach, you have itgoing across the top of your screen, reach anall-time ... high this week. So no, theissue of affordability is not going away."
"There isa reason why Republicans wanted this legislationnot just passed," he added, "but signed into law by the president of the UnitedStates, because this this is the issue, of course, that got Donald Trump elected in the first place, and they want to be able to give their voterssomething the are members of Congress something sothat the voters, perhaps you know, don't vote themout of office come November."
Host John Berman marveled at the finding about searches for affordability hitting an all-time high and questioned Trump's decision to abandon the housing bill for now, and Enten slammed the move.
"Great politics," Enten said, sarcastically.
"President Trump gotelected to bring down inflation, got elected tofix the economy, in the voters' mind," Enten continued, "and do theythink he's keeping his campaign promises? No, no,no, no, oh God, no, Trump kept his 2024 campaignpromises. You know, you go back to April of 2025among voters.The bare majority, but a majority nonetheless, 52 percent said yes, 47 percent said no, that 52 percent down to theground now. Now it's 40 percent, while that percentagesaid no, it's up now it's the clear majority, 55 percentsay that Trump is not keeping his campaignpromises."
"So when he is off yesterday, not signingthat bill to help bring down, make housing moreaffordable, instead talking about the SAVE Act, this is what they're talking about, President Trumptaking his eyes off the ball and not keeping his2024 campaign," Enten added.
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