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At 10:26 in the morning, while House Republican leaders stood at a press conference celebrating the most significant bipartisan achievement of this Congress, a housing bill that had passed the Senate 85 to 5 and the House 358 to 32, the President of the United States posted 39 words on Truth Social and ended it all. He would not sign the bill. Not until Congress passed the SAVE America Act, a voting bill his own party leaders have told him repeatedly does not have the votes to pass. And inside a closed-door lunch hours later, a Republican senator stood up and started yelling at the President of the United States.

Based on the events of 6-24-2026

The Breakdown:

• Trump refused to sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the most comprehensive housing bill in decades, which passed 85-5 in the Senate and 358-32 in the House
• Speaker Mike Johnson had spoken with Trump 20 minutes earlier and believed the signing was still on. Susan Collins called it a complete surprise
• Workers had already begun taking apart the signing stage in Statuary Hall
• Inside a closed-door lunch, Senator Bill Cassidy stood up and yelled at Trump. Trump called him a lunatic. Cassidy called him brother. Trump said he was not his brother
• What the housing bill would have done: limit institutional investors buying single-family homes, increase supply, lower costs for first-time buyers and seniors
• Trump called it "of minor importance" and walked away
• The SAVE America Act he demands would require proof of citizenship, strict photo ID, and practically ban mail-in voting, with unrelated transgender provisions attached
• Lisa Murkowski to Trump's face: "If you don't have the votes, sir, you don't have the votes"
• Murkowski's suspicion that the real goal is to blow up the filibuster
• Why proof-of-citizenship requirements disproportionately affect women who changed their names, elderly voters, rural communities, and disabled voters
• Nine minutes before canceling the bill, Trump posted "MY REAL POLL NUMBERS ARE THE HIGHEST THEY HAVE EVER BEEN"
• Trump berated Senator Dave McCormick for missing the war powers vote, even though McCormick missed it to attend Trump's own rally
• John Kennedy said Trump was "mad as a murder hornet." John Cornyn: "That was quite a unity message"
• The Freedom 250 rally, Trump's partisan replacement for the bipartisan America250 commission
• Almost every musician pulled out, including Martina McBride, Bret Michaels, and the Commodores. At least seven states declined
• Cabinet Secretary Sean Duffy called the artists who walked away "libtards" on the National Mall
• A crowd of just over a thousand, with one of the shortest rally speeches of Trump's career
• The Kaine resolution on Iran failed 47 to 50 after Cassidy was summoned to the Situation Room and changed his vote

Senators who show courage in public somehow find reasons to retreat in private, and whatever leverage is being applied is strong enough to reverse a vote within hours on a matter of war and peace. And yet the exodus is real. The Trump machine is still working, and it is also still losing people faster than it can pull them back. Every day we share the truth and don't let his propaganda scare us into silence, we are making a choice too.

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