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Coming up, President Trump considers enlisting banks in his crackdown on illegal immigration.
That's after the break.
We're exclusively reporting that the Trump administration is considering requiring banks to collect citizenship information from customers.
People familiar with the matter said that the action could task banks with requesting a new category of documents, such as a passport, from both new and existing customers who want to maintain a bank account in the U.S.
It's a new front in the administration's crackdown on immigrants living in the U.S.
illegally, and the people said that discussions about the potential executive order have alarmed banks in recent days.
This report comes just a few hours before President Trump is expected to make his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.
As we mentioned on this morning's show, Trump is planning to use the speech to sell the public on the economy, and he's expected to unveil new measures meant to lower costs ahead of the midterms.
But one thing you might not see much of is Democrats.
About 50 Democratic members of the House and Senate plan to skip the speech, an unusual rebuke of a sitting president.
Most of the Democrats protesting will appear instead at dueling counter-programming events in Washington that will feature a range of Trump critics.
A new report out today showed that U.S.
home prices grew 1.3 percent for the year ending in December, its lowest annual gain since 2011.
That's according to the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, which measures home prices across the country.
But that doesn't mean that buyers are finding homes to be more affordable, as mortgage rates and inflation have continued to weigh on buyers.
Recently, though, lawmakers have been working on it.
The House and Senate recently passed their first significant bills in decades aimed at solving America's housing shortage.
Rebecca Picciotto, who covers residential real estate, is here to tell us more.
Rebecca, what are some of the major points in both of these bills in both the House and the Senate?