Elizabeth Warren reacts live to Trump saying he won’t sign housing bill

Senate Elizabeth Warren reacts live to Trump saying he won’t sign housing bill Comments: by Ashleigh Fields - 06/24/26 1:13 PM ET Comments: Link copied by Ashleigh Fields - 06/24/26 1:13 PM ET Comments: Link copied

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Wednesday appeared flabbergasted when asked about why President Trump chose to cancel his signing of a bipartisan housing bill that easily cleared both chambers of Congress.

“I’m sorry, if you’re asking me to get into Donald Trump’s head and figure out what’s going on there, you need somebody else,” Warren, who was a driving factor in the bill’s passage alongside Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), said during an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.”

“I just, I don’t have any idea. This just doesn’t make any sense, other than whatever it is he wants to do, it’s a complete indifference to the cost squeeze on American families and to genuine efforts to do something about it,” she added.

The bill passed with overwhelming support, clearing the House 358-32 and the Senate 85-5.

It caps the number of single-family homes large institutional investors and private equity firms can purchase, establishes a $200 million per year Innovation Fund to reward localities that increase housing supply and provides pilot programs and grants to help local governments convert vacant commercial properties into affordable housing units.

In a Wednesday post on Truth Social, the president said the bill will not be signed until lawmakers pass his favored election reform legislation, a measure that overhauls voting requirements to ensure individuals provide proof of citizenship and photo ID to cast their ballots.

“Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

The president is scheduled to meet with Senate Republicans on Wednesday in the Capitol.

Warren said Trump’s last minute cancellation shows he does not care about working class American families.

“You know, he could be over here trying to claim a victory lap and instead he’s saying no, no, he doesn’t want anything to do with it,” the Massachusetts senator said on CNBC.

“It’s because he really doesn’t care about American families and doesn’t care about the fact that prices are up and the promises he made to lower costs on day one have not only come to nothing, prices are higher on groceries, prices are higher on health care, prices are higher on virtually everything that Americans buy because of Donald Trump’s policies,” she added.

Scott did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment regarding the matter.

Shortly after Trump’s post, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he would move to pass the SAVE America Act through a budget reconciliation package, though the Senate parliamentarian said earlier this year the measure does not meet the threshold to pass with only a 50-vote majority.