{"id":3450,"date":"2026-07-06T04:26:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2026-07-06T04:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:26:32","slug":"congress-should-not-let-trump-hold-housing-bill-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3450","title":{"rendered":"Congress Should Not Let Trump Hold Housing Bill Hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Today, President Trump announced on Truth Social that he is cancelling plans to sign major bipartisan legislation on housing affordability, threatening to veto the bill unless the anti-voter Save America Act is passed first.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, <\/strong>issued the following statement in response:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump\u2019s full-on commitment to authoritarianism could not be more clear: He\u2019s happy to block enactment of a bipartisan bill to address, modestly, Americans number one stated concern \u2014 high housing prices \u2014 in order to drive forward his election sabotage agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s plain what Congress should do: Listen to the American people, not Donald Trump. Pass the housing bill over his veto, if he follows through with today\u2019s threats. And reject his demand for anti-voter, anti-democracy legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, President Trump announced on Truth Social that he is cancelling plans to sign major bipartisan legislation on housing affordability, threatening to veto the bill unless the anti-voter Save America Act is passed first. Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response: \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s full-on commitment to authoritarianism could not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}