SouthernWorldwide.com – Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, has strongly criticized President Donald Trump for his refusal to sign a significant bipartisan housing package, calling him a “man-child” who is having a “tantrum.”
During a recent interview on WCVB’s “On the Record,” the progressive senator expressed her deep frustration with the stalled legislation. She delivered a direct message to the President, urging him to “Sign the damn bill.”
“If he cared about the American people, he’d have already signed the damn thing,” Warren stated. She argued that President Trump “does not care about the economic survival of America’s working families.”
The legislation in question is the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. Warren described it as a comprehensive bipartisan package containing nearly 50 provisions aimed at tackling the national housing emergency.
She highlighted that years of insufficient construction have led to soaring housing prices, creating a deficit of millions of new homes across the United States.
The primary objective of this bill is to reduce construction costs and facilitate the building of new homes.
Co-sponsored by Senator Tim Scott, a Republican from South Carolina, the bill also includes a secondary focus on preventing corporate consolidation within the housing market.
Warren explained that the legislation is designed to stop private equity firms from acquiring local neighborhoods and transforming the United States into “a nation of renters.”
According to Warren, the legislation had broad support from members of both political parties before it was halted.
She asserted that the bill was “handed to the president on a silver platter,” with lawmakers from both sides eager to claim credit for it.
“Republicans were all going online, saying, ‘well, I helped write that bill. This bill is terrific,’” Warren recounted. “So everybody’s out there saying, ‘my bill, I helped make this happen,’ right up until the man-child has a tantrum and announces he will not be signing it.”
Critics of the housing bill have raised concerns that it does not include new federal funding, does not directly address the rising costs of homeownership, and falls short in tackling permitting issues.
President Trump had previously canceled a scheduled signing event. He insisted that lawmakers must first approve the unrelated SAVE America Act, a measure focused on voting, before he would proceed with signing any new laws.
