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BREAKING: House Republican gets humiliated bragging about a new bill, completely unaware Trump just announced he won't sign it!
Talk about perfect timing for maximum embarrassment!
Standing before the assembled press, Republican Whip Tom Emmer righteously intoned that House Republicans are “the party that governs and delivers” because “that’s what the American people sent us here to do.”
Oops, make that except when Donald Trump is president, and capable of torpedoing bills without any warning or explanation.
This morning, the president suddenly canceled the signing ceremony for a bipartisan housing bill that would expand affordable housing and help first-time homebuyers, leaving Republicans looking foolish and completely disconnected from their own leader.
Seems Trump is so obsessed with the dead-in-the-water SAVE act that he won’t sign anything unless it gets passed first.
House Democrats pounced on the chaos. Rep. Ted Lieu mocked:
“All of a sudden, Donald Trump decides he’s not coming to sign the bill. Well, why is that? Did he wake up on the wrong side of the bed?”
Affordable housing leaders were furious, since some had already received invitations and were traveling to the Capitol when they learned Trump killed the event at the last minute.
Welcome to MAGA governance under the Orange One. Republican legislators strut around pretending they’re getting things done, only for Trump to treat them like irrelevant props and pull the rug out whenever he feels like it.
No coordination, no leadership – just pure ego and incompetence.
We admit it’s fun to watch preening House Republicans, thinking they are pleasing the Don, instead get publicly humiliated by his counterproductive stubbornness, but on the other hand it's indicative of the rot that has infiltrated the whole system of governance in Washington.
Fun as it is to watch, this all needs to stop. Congress has to get back in the business of responsible governance under Democratic leadership.
The Republicans have had their chance under Trump, and incidents like this make clear why his administration is such an pitiable failure.