India, July 11 -- US President Donald Trump said Friday he will not sign a sweeping bipartisan housing bill that cleared Congress by overwhelming margins, choosing instead to let it become law automatically at midnight without his signature, in a protest move tied to Senate Republicans' failure to pass a separate, unrelated voter identification measure he has made his top legislative priority.

"I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Friday morning, adding that the failure to advance the voting legislation was "CRAZY" and posed what he c...