Host says Trump 'dashed Republican hopes' by tanking major bill: 'He shot the hostage'

A last-minute Donald Trump decision to cancel the signing ceremony for a popular housing bill that sailed through both chambers of Congress with unusual bipartisan support is yet another blow to Republicans who have been looking for any good news as they face a midterm blowout.

Mid-Wednesday morning, the president took to his Truth Social platform and wrote, “Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency.”

Breaking the news on MS NOW as it happened, host Ali Vitali pointed out the president just pulled the rug out from under his own party that has little to brag about to voters.

“Now the President is dashing Republican hopes of having a new bill on affordability to run on. And also putting them again in a position where they're not going to pass this [SAVE AMERICA] bill,” she told her panel.

“If you are a traditional, normal President, your entire job at this moment in time is to get those Republican Senators re-elected,” Puck White House correspondent Abby Livingston added.

“And yet here on Earth, there seems to be the only thing more fun than tormenting Democrats right now seems to be tormenting Senate Republicans and he is making their lives actively harder,” she elaborated. “

"He has metaphorically already shot the hostage in this situation, and so you have just this,” she continued. “This is going to land on him in six months if he loses the Senate because he's not going to be able to get confirmations through, and this is all going to come to a head.”

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