Subject: Trump puts vote suppression over affordable housing
For Immediate Release: June 24, 2026
Contact: David Rosen, drosen@citizen.org
Christine Wood, christine@DFADCoalition.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he plans to cancel the signing of major bipartisan legislation on housing affordability, threatening to veto the bill unless the anti-voter Save America Act is passed first. Christine Wood, co-director of the Declaration for American Democracy Coalition, issued the following statement:
“At a time when countless Americans are struggling to make ends meet under the weight of high housing costs and the affordability crisis, President Trump made his priorities clear: Instead of signing bipartisan legislation that would provide Americans with essential relief, he’s once again attempting to force through his desperate agenda to keep Americans from voting.
“Just like his efforts to suppress voters of color through his push for mid-decade redistricting and Jim-Crow maps, and his efforts to repeal vote-by-mail and spread false claims of our elections, this is yet another attempt to try to influence the election in his favor and keep his friends in power.
“Trump knows he is deeply unpopular, and instead of delivering on the needs of the people, he is trying to keep Americans from voting. They can try every trick in the book, but in this country, voters choose their leaders – not the other way around.”
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The Declaration for American Democracy is a diverse coalition of over 270 democracy, environmental, labor, faith-based, good government, women’s rights, civil rights, and other groups focused on advancing the structural changes necessary to ensure our democracy reflects, responds to, and represents voters.
