Congress passed the largest housing affordability bill in decades with overwhelming bipartisan support, but Trump canceled the signing ceremony on Wednesday and is demanding Congress pass a voter ID bill instead before he'll sign the housing bill into law. This breaks a rare bipartisan moment and uses housing affordability — an actual Republican policy win — as leverage for a separate partisan priority. The broader pattern shows Trump using executive power to override congressional action when it doesn't serve his immediate political agenda, even when the underlying bill addresses real cost-of-living pressures.