# Lincoln Project — "affordable housing unless you give up your voting rights" > [!quote] "You're not getting affordable housing unless you give up your voting rights." > — the [[Lincoln Project]]'s summation of the GOP's message, as characterized in Heather Cox Richardson's letter of July 10, 2026 > [!warning] Sourcing > This line appears in Heather Cox Richardson's July 10, 2026 letter as her rendering of how "the Lincoln Project summed it up" — not as an independently verified verbatim Lincoln Project post. HCR's Notes cite a Lincoln Project Bluesky post, but the exact wording above is her characterization of its framing. Treat it as a paraphrase attributed to the Lincoln Project, not a confirmed direct quote. ## Context The framing captured the political logic of [[Donald Trump]]'s decision to withhold his signature from the bipartisan [[21st Century ROAD to Housing Act]] as leverage to force passage of the [[SAVE Act]], his voter-ID bill. The message the [[Lincoln Project]] read into that move — four months before the 2026 midterms — was that the administration would hold housing relief hostage to voter-eligibility restrictions. The housing act became law anyway at 11:59 PM on July 10, 2026, without Trump's signature.