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Housing Bill Expected to Become Law Despite Trump's Refusal to Sign

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So Speaker Johnson said that he's going to send that bill to the white House

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today. And the reason why that's important is

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that it starts a ten day clock. The President Trump can essentially has

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three choices. He can either sign the bill.

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He can veto the bill, or he can do nothing.

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And if he does nothing, that the bill then automatically becomes law.

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And I think that's where, you know, two of these scenarios are going to play

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out. He's either going to sign the bill or

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the bill is going to become law. I don't see the President Trump going to

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veto this bill, because even though this bill, uh, you know, he called it Senator

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Elizabeth Warren's bill, like you noted, it's overwhelmingly bipartisan.

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And it gives both sides of the aisle the opportunity to go ahead of the midterms

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and say, we care about affordability, because that is the biggest driver of

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this bill is that it's an affordability housing bill.

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So that's why I think the bill ultimately becomes law.

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Well, Nathan, that argument was perfectly cogent, which is why I think

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I'm going to put some money down on he vetoes it.

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I mean, why wouldn't he? If that's classic Trump.

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Well, so President Trump's real motivation here is to try and get

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Congress, like you said, passed the Save America Act.

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This is the bill that deals with citizen, uh, you know, seriously.

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Citizenship voting. He even said that just a few moments ago

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in true social in response to the Supreme Court.

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Now, what I think ultimately happens here is that, you know, they're trying

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to get Save America act through reconciliation.

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Long story short, is it's not going to work.

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But if they try and get something tied to grants and the idea here, right now

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is that you offer $4 billion in grants to states to incentivize to implement

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the Save America Act. That could be a pathway forward for

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essentially Speaker Johnson to say to the white House, look, we're doing what

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you've asked. We're doing it within the role of what

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we can get through. Congress signed the bill.

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I think that's what President Trump will ultimately agree to, but we'll see.

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He can always veto it, because nobody expected him last week to say that he

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wasn't going to sign it either. Okay, so here's my question about this

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housing bill. How effective is it because there's an

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affordability crisis in the country. Um, and the this is a federal bill.

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So it tries to do things at the federal level.

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But there's a I mean, states have their own laws and regulations and rules.

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So does this bill. If it becomes law, really move the

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needle. So there's a short term.

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And then there's a long term aspect to this from the short term.

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If you're listening to us right now in New York City.

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Is it going to decline the price of homes or make it more affordable?

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No. You're not really going to see much of a

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short term impact on this. This is essentially just messaging from

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the short term side from the long term side.

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Yeah, it's incrementally better for the housing.

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You know we've done some analysis. Call it 1 to 3% growth in terms of new

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homes. Long story.

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You know talking about the next 3 to 5 years.

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But you're really looking at markets like Austin, Texas of Birmingham,

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Alabama, rather than New York City or Washington, D.C.

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at the end of the day, this bill was mostly from the investment side talking

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about negatives. There was some original language in here

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that would actually sort of make the build to rent communities unfeasible

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going forward. That was scary for some of the single

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named, uh, single family home REIT's out there, like Invitation Homes and MH.

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But ultimately there's so many exemptions in this bill.

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You know, that really scary headline isn't really all that much of an impact

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for them.

Interactive Summary

This video discusses a bipartisan affordable housing bill sent by Speaker Johnson to President Trump. It explains the legislative process for the bill, including the President's options to sign, veto, or ignore it. The speakers analyze the political motivations, the potential for the bill to be tied to other legislation like the Save America Act, and assess the real-world impact of the bill on the housing market, noting that it will likely have minimal short-term effects but could offer incremental long-term growth for specific markets.

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