President Donald Trump downplayed the bipartisan housing legislation that many congressional allies hope will ease the affordability worries plaguing voters, saying instead in an exclusive Washington Examiner interview that housing is “all about interest rates.”
Trump said on a phone call Thursday morning that he was focused on more important priorities than the legislation, which the Senate passed last month and faces an unclear future in the House. It would be the second most significant economic policy bill to pass Congress in his second term, after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that he signed last summer.
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Trump said he is pushing for the housing bill but that “we have other things we’re pushing that are bigger, and right now, more important.”
He also took a shot at Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, whom he has pressured for months to lower interest rates.
“I’m looking at other things very strongly,” Trump said. “Housing to me
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