It’s rare for a president to use the weight of the office to publicly support or oppose a bill that impacts a private sector venture.
House Democrats on Wednesday were forced to delay votes on a pair of relatively obscure tribal casino bills after President Donald Trump issued a surprise tweet urging Republicans to vote against one of the two bills.
If passed, H. R. 312 would clear the way for a new casino to be built in Massachusetts on land belonging to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. A related piece of legislation, H. R. 375, would allow the Interior Department to take land into trust for Native American tribes — land on which the tribes could then operate casinos.
