‘I will not sign’: Trump defies GOP in tantrum over stalled voter ID bill

President Donald Trump doubled down Friday on his threat to tank a bipartisan bill supported by an overwhelming number of Republicans in an effort to coerce the GOP to force through his controversial voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act.

Last month, the House voted 358-32 to pass the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, sending it to Trump's desk for final approval. Trump was expected to sign the bill in a ceremony but abruptly canceled the event and demanded that Republicans eliminate the filibuster – a Senate rule that allows lawmakers to block bills short of 60 votes – in order to force through the SAVE Act, which critics have described as a form of “voter suppression.”

“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,” Trump wrote in a post on his social media platform Truth Social.

“The Dumocrats will TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, if and when they ever get the chance to do so, in their very first hour - And I will no longer be able to call them Dumocrats again! The title of DUMB will revert to the Republicans who allowed this horrible calamity to happen to our Party, and our Nation, itself!”