Michael Gold
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875 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6 Jul
Michael Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they're working with their counterparts in the House on this.
French Hill, who's kind of a mainstream conservative Republican from Arkansas, and Maxine Waters, a little bit more to the left, perhaps not as far as Warren, and she's from California.
Yeah, this really is odd bedfellows.
Yeah, and look, this is how Congress is supposed to work.
Lawmakers who have a common interest work together, they put party aside, and they start hammering out a deal.
And so this is what's going on for most of last year.
And at this point, the president's not really saying much about it.
He's focused on the big, beautiful bill.
He's focused on immigration policy.
This just isn't top of mind for him.
But as we round into 2026, it's a midterm election year, and affordability is top of mind for the American voter.
And it's shown in poll after poll that cost of living is the number one problem that voters have, and it's an area where they're judging the president's success and something that they're going to vote on when it comes to the midterms.
Absolutely, and Democrats really seize on this.
They make it very clear this is going to be a major issue for them.
So coming into the start of the year, it's January, and Congress makes clear that they really want to get a housing bill done.
They've given it a name.
They call it the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, which is supposed to represent the scope of their ambition here.
They want to do something really big on housing that's really going to help a lot of people.
So Congress wants to address the housing crisis by basically boosting the supply of new homes, making it easier to build new homes, making it cheaper to build new homes.
And they do this in a few ways.
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