In a letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acting director Russel Vought, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) urged the bureau to reconsider the withdrawal of a rule that would have prevented private, personal data from being collected and sold without the consumer’s consent.
Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and 45 members of the Democratic caucus, as well as 180 House Democrats, filed an amicus brief in NTEU v. CFPB, condemning the mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
A letter to President Donald Trump signed by 19 U.S. Democratic senators shared their concerns about how tariffs are increasing housing costs and asked the president to “refocus your attention on policies that will address our nation’s housing crisis — not exacerbate it.”
Legislators in both the U.S. Senate and House reintroduced the Housing Supply Frameworks Act, which would direct the Department of Housing and Urban Development to develop zoning and land-use policies for communities to use to bolster affordable housing supplies.
U.S. Rep Mike Flood (R-Neb.), Housing and Insurance Subcommittee chairman, and U.S. Rep Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), ranking member of the subcommittee, kicked off a bipartisan initiative to reauthorize the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Home Investment Partnership Program and the Community Development Block Grant programs.
The Trump administration announced it intends to eliminate a Department of Veteran Affairs’ program launched last year to help veterans who are struggling financially to avoid foreclosure.
More than 20 U.S. Senators from both sides of the aisle sent a letter to U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent expressing their support for the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, which a recent executive order from President Donald Trump called for eliminating.
Five Democratic Senators called on the Government Accountability Office to investigate the cuts to fair housing enforcement at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development by the Department of Government Efficiency.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and U.S. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) introduced legislation aimed at tackling the housing affordability crisis by kicking hedge funds out of the single-family housing market.
The Senate Banking Committee voted to advance the Trump administration’s nominees to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Housing Finance Agency to the full Senate for a confirmation vote.
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