Trump, still writing MIDTERM ADS for DEMOCRATS: "No one gives a **** about housing"

[Miles Archer]

Trump has worked behind the scenes to tank Republican support for a bipartisan bill in the Senate that would tackle housing affordability, Punchbowl News reported on Thursday.

The main issue, noted the report, is his insistence that his pet voter suppression bill, which just passed the House, be adopted in the Senate — something GOP leaders have said they don't have the votes for.

"The Senate is expected to pass the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act in a big bipartisan vote later this morning. The effort is led by Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)," said the report. "But as we scooped Wednesday night, Speaker Mike Johnson informed House GOP leaders this week that the president told him 'no one gives a [bleep] about housing' — a message intended to convey that Trump has made the SAVE America Act his top legislative priority instead. And all of this is far in the background of the Iran war, which is dominating everything in Washington."

The bill contains a grab bag of ideas on housing, including permitting reform to make it easier to build new housing inventory, and new incentives for local communities to boost production. It also includes limits on large "institutional investors" owning single family homes — an idea that experts are skeptical will do much for affordability, but enjoys widespread bipartisan support.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-housing-2676087797/

[DiverDave]

1. Well my 20 something

Kids still live at home with their mother.
They, and their friends, cannot afford to buy a house.
Or even afford a rental. Unless they have multiple roommates.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. MaddowBlog-Trump and his allies pitch a new idea: Maybe higher gas prices aren't 'bad news'

We’ve reached the point at which the president wants consumers to be glad they’re paying more at the pump.

Trump, in late October: “With the Democrats, you’ll be paying , , and a Gallon.”

Trump, today, as gas prices approach the levels he warned about five months ago: “When oil prices go up, we make a lot of money.”

If Dems are lucky, the White House will keep pushing this line.

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-03-12T16:48:06.117Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-and-his-allies-pitch-a-new-idea-maybe-higher-gas-prices-arent-bad-news

It was against this backdrop that the Republican president rolled out a very different kind of message on Thursday morning. Just 17 weeks after he wrote, “Under President Trump, ME, Gasoline will come down to approximately $2 a Gallon,” Trump tried selling Americans on the opposite message.

“The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,” Trump wrote.

Yes, we’ve reached the point at which the president wants consumers to be glad they’re paying more at the pump.

As a substantive matter, the problem with Trump’s claim is that the word “we” was doing a lot of work in his sentence. It’s true that the United States is producing a lot of oil, and it’s also true that higher prices help generate oil industry profits. But since the number of Americans who benefit from oil industry profits is very small, few will likely celebrate the hit to their wallets.

Complicating matters, Trump isn’t alone on this. Kelly Loeffler, head of the Small Business Administration, downplayed the importance of rising gas prices in a podcast interview this week. And on Thursday morning, Energy Secretary Chris Wright appeared on Fox News and pushed a line that was eerily similar to the president’s: “Fortunately, the United States, we produce more oil than we can consume; we’re a net oil exporter. So overall for the U.S. economy, this isn’t bad news.”

This is a message that Republicans will continue to embrace in the coming weeks and months if Democrats are extremely lucky.