President Donald Trump on Friday said he will not sign a bipartisan housing bill that Congress passed last month, in protest of Republicans’ failure to pass a controversial election measure.

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But the housing affordability bill, dubbed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, is nevertheless set to become law automatically on Saturday — unless Trump vetoes it.

The White House, when asked if Trump would veto the bill, referred CNBC to the president’s Truth Social post saying he would not sign it.

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Trump has pushed his GOP allies to make the election bill, called the SAVE America Act, their top legislative priority before the November midterms, when Democrats hope to retake at least one chamber of Congress. The bill purports to cut down on noncitizen voting in U.S. elections, even though that is already federally illegal and happens rarely, among other provisions.

Trump has previously suggested he will refuse to sign other bills until the election legislation becomes law, and last month abruptly canceled a scheduled signing ceremony for the housing bill on those grounds.

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