Bipartisan housing affordability bill becomes law

WASHINGTON (CNN) - A bipartisan bill that aims to tackle housing affordability officially became law early Saturday.

That’s despite a series of attempts by President Donald Trump to stall the 21st Century Road to Housing Act.

Supporters of the law have touted it as the most comprehensive housing reform in at least 30 years.

Trump had previously expressed support for it, but he has since turned critical.

In a social media post Friday, Trump said he refused to sign it in protest of the Senate’s failure to pass the Save America Act.

That’s a voter ID measure he has argued should be the top priority of Congress.

Last month, after the bill passed Congress, Trump canceled a signing ceremony just two hours before it was scheduled to begin.

He later called the bill a “big yawn.”

Regardless, the measure became law automatically Saturday morning under the Constitution.

That’s because he did not veto it.