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GOP can’t agree on key part of Trump’s housing affordability push as infighting continues

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President Donald Trump is leaning on Congress to tee up an affordability win ahead of November’s midterm elections, but entrenched GOP disagreement on a sweeping housing proposal threatens to derail it. 

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Trump on Monday called on the House to swiftly approve Senate-passed legislation aimed at easing housing affordability that has languished in the lower chamber for several months. House Republicans, however, have balked at that request and are pitching a rival plan. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., teased earlier in the week that Republicans and Democrats would come together to bring a «bipartisan, bicameral bill to the president’s desk.»  

«I think everybody feels like it’s important, so we’re just working out some nuances,» Johnson said.

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks at a press conference with House Republican leaders at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2026. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

TRUMP-BACKED AFFORDABLE HOUSING OVERHAUL CLEARS SENATE, WHILE HOUSE GOP RAISES RED FLAGS

Senior House lawmakers on Thursday unveiled a modified version of the Senate’s 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which is expected to receive a vote in the lower chamber as early as next week. 

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Any changes to the Senate’s proposal would force the upper chamber to consider the measure again, prolonging the timeline lawmakers can send legislation to Trump’s desk.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., one of the chief architects of the Senate’s bill, declined to say whether she was speaking with her counterparts in the House about tweaks to the bill, and argued that lawmakers were running out of time to do something.

«There’s a housing crisis out there,» Warren said. «This bill can pass today if the House would just put it on the floor and vote on it.
We need to get started, and if the House has more ideas than they’d like to add, start another bill.» 

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Some GOP lawmakers are not sweating the wait.

«We cannot take the Senate bill to the floor,» House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., told Fox News Digital in an interview earlier this week.

The political dynamics are much different in the Senate, however. And the housing bill passed with fewer than a dozen defectors in March — a rare feat in such a hyper-partisan Congress. 

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., argued that the easiest route to putting the legislation on Trump’s desk is passing the Senate’s version.

«It’s been sitting over there for a while and the president’s weighed in on it. I think, you know, the White House made it clear, they would like to see the House pick up and pass the Senate bill,» Thune said. «We’ve done what we can do. It’s in the court of the House now.»

The House product struck out a controversial provision taking aim at the build-to-rent market that drew the opposition of conservatives, who argued the language amounted to excessive government interference in the housing market.

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The clause in the Senate’s proposal would have specifically required some developers to sell single-family homes built for the purpose of renting within seven years after construction. The build-to-rent industry and opponents of the provision argued their properties provide a more affordable option for some Americans priced out of the housing market and could imperil the supply of rentals across the country.

«We’ve got to make sure we do it in a right way that continues to keep free markets,» Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, said, adding that the clause in the Senate bill could make it «impossible» for some people to access housing.

Split of Thune, Johnson, and Trump

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., are pitching rival housing bills as President Donald Trump looks for a legislative win on affordability. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Kent Nishimura/Getty Images; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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The proposal, however, would also weaken a ban on large institutional investors from purchasing single-family homes — a priority of the Trump administration.

The House’s rival housing bill notably preserves a ban on central bank digital currencies (CBDC) through 2030 that was included in the Senate’s legislation.

House conservatives raged at the Senate bill for stopping short of enacting a permanent CBDC ban — a top priority of GOP privacy hawks, who have sought to add the language to various legislative vehicles.

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«It has to be permanent,» Cloud said. «We’ve got to put the nail in the coffin on it.»

House Financial Services Chairman French Hill, R-Ark., a co-author of the House’s rival housing package, said he shared Trump’s goal of expanding access to affordable homeownership in a statement Thursday.

«It cuts unnecessary barriers to new home construction, modernizes HUD programs, and allows banks to more freely deploy funding into their communities,» Hill said regarding the lower chamber’s proposal. «We must get this right — and I am committed to working hard to do that.»

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Not everyone in the Senate is upset by the House’s decision to modify the bill. 

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., was one of the few lawmakers to vote against the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and told Fox News Digital that housing affordability isn’t something that’s dictated by the federal government.

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Prospective buyers arrive during an open house in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., on May 9, 2026, amid rising mortgage rates that could slow the spring home sales season. (Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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«If you wanted to actually reduce housing costs, it’s local governments who are gonna have to allow more houses to be built,» Scott said. 

The legislative standoff comes as a recent Fox News poll found that nearly 80% of voters said housing costs were a problem for them or their family. The same survey also found that Democrats hold a lead over Republicans on inflation and the economy.

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Federal judge acknowledges Supreme Court ruling clearing path for Trump to end Haiti TPS

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday notched a major immigration victory after a federal judge acknowledged that the court order blocking the administration from ending temporary protected status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitians is no longer in effect after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Mullin v. Doe.

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The ruling marks the culmination of a yearslong legal battle over the Biden administration’s expansion of Haiti’s TPS designation and delivers a significant immigration victory for Trump, who repeatedly campaigned on ending the Biden administration’s expanded TPS protections for Haitians.

The issue became a centerpiece of the 2024 election after Trump and running mate JD Vance blamed the Biden administration’s Haiti TPS policies for the influx of Haitian migrants into Springfield, Ohio, where residents raised concerns about traffic safety, strained public services and cultural clashes.

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A federal judge acknowledged that the court order blocking the Trump administration from ending temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians is no longer in effect. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images, File)

The controversy later exploded onto the national stage after Trump referenced residents’ claims that migrants were taking ducks and geese from parks and eating household pets.

The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment by publication time.

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U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes wrote Wednesday that her earlier order staying the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) termination of Haiti’s TPS designation «is no longer in effect» after the Supreme Court’s decision and the D.C. Circuit’s subsequent mandate.

While the underlying lawsuit will continue, the administration is no longer barred by the injunction from moving forward with ending TPS protections for an estimated 330,000 to 350,000 Haitians living in the U.S. 

The remaining litigation centers on whether the administration acted with unconstitutional racial animus in terminating the designation.

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LIBERAL COURT STUNS WITH RULING THAT HANDS TRUMP MAJOR IMMIGRATION WIN

The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen at dusk on July 8, 2026 in Washington, DC.

The Supreme Court ruling in Mullin v. Doe ended TPS for Haitian migrants. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images, File)

The Supreme Court ruled in June that the TPS statute bars judicial review of the administration’s non-constitutional decisions to terminate TPS designations and found the plaintiffs’ equal protection challenge was unlikely to succeed. The court reversed the lower courts and remanded the case for further proceedings.

DHS General Counsel James Percival pushed back on reports suggesting Wednesday’s order itself ended Haiti’s TPS designation, arguing the protections effectively expired when the Supreme Court’s mandate was issued July 27 and that Reyes’ order merely acknowledged that legal reality.

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«Haiti TPS ended when the Supreme Court mandate issued on July 27,» Percival wrote on X. «I will give Judge Reyes kudos though for taking the L with grace and not doing something bonkers like many of her colleagues.»

Haiti first received TPS after the country’s devastating 2010 earthquake, but the designation remained in place for 16 years through multiple administrations. The Biden administration later expanded and extended protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians already living in the U.S.

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Temporary protected status for Haitian immigrants was lifted late last month. (Lynne Sladky/AP Photo, File)

After reviewing conditions in Haiti, former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem determined the country no longer met the statutory requirements for TPS and announced the administration’s decision to terminate the designation, arguing the humanitarian program had been extended well beyond its intended temporary purpose. The move triggered the legal challenge that ultimately reached the Supreme Court.

After the SCOTUS decision, the DHS announced Haiti’s TPS designation would be terminated, effective July 27, and that employment authorization documents issued under the designation were no longer valid. The department instructed employers to reverify the work authorization of affected employees.

The State Department maintains a Level 4 «Do Not Travel» advisory for Haiti because of widespread gang violence, kidnappings and civil unrest.

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Fox News Digital’s Danielle Wallace and Michael Lee contributed to this report.

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Rusia y Ucrania luchan ahora por el control del espacio aéreo: el futuro de la guerra se juega en el cielo

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Mientras el frente en Ucrania se solidifica en un sangriento punto muerto, la trayectoria futura de la guerra se va definiendo en los cielos.

Esta guerra aérea es una contienda que lo abarca todo, desde unos pocos metros por encima de las líneas de árboles calcinadas hasta satélites en órbita terrestre baja. Su impacto físico queda grabado en el paisaje con el fuego que lanzan misiles y drones, aunque gran parte de la lucha permanece oculta, en la carrera por desplegar inteligencia artificial y controlar un amplio espectro de ondas de radio.

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Ucrania está utilizando drones explosivos para atacar instalaciones petroleras rusas desde Siberia hasta San Petersburgo y puertos rusos desde el Mar Báltico hasta el Mar Negro. Día tras día, los almacenes del mayor minorista en línea de Rusia arden en llamas, y Crimea, ocupada por Rusia, se sume en la oscuridad . Ucrania ataca a Rusia con mucha más frecuencia que al principio de la guerra, incluyendo ataques con misiles de crucero contra objetivos militares a cientos de kilómetros del frente.

Al mismo tiempo, Rusia está batiendo récords mensuales con sus propios ataques aéreos, aprovechando las deficiencias de las debilitadas defensas aéreas ucranianas con resultados letales.

En julio, Moscú lanzó al menos 126 misiles balísticos, la cifra más alta en tiempos de guerra, según un análisis del New York Times basado en datos de la Fuerza Aérea Ucraniana. Alrededor de 400 civiles murieron el mes pasado en los ataques rusos, que incluyeron misiles de crucero y drones, convirtiéndolo en el mes más mortífero desde abril de 2022.

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Antes del amanecer del miércoles, al menos 17 personas más murieron en Kiev, la capital ucraniana, en un ataque que incluyó 24 misiles balísticos y cuatro misiles hipersónicos. Según la Fuerza Aérea Ucraniana, ninguno de esos misiles fue derribado.

Más allá del costo humano, los ataques rusos han obligado a Ucrania a suspender envíos vitales de cereales y acero desde sus puertos marítimos. Los ataques también han devastado una infraestructura ya maltrecha, lo que ha generado temores de que el país se enfrente a otro invierno con escasez de calefacción y electricidad.

El conflicto entre Rusia y Ucrania es, en esencia, dos guerras en una.

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Una de las guerras se libra sin descanso entre soldados de infantería y operadores de drones desde escondites a lo largo de los 1287 kilómetros del frente. Rusia sigue intentando capturar territorio ucraniano, a costa de la vida de decenas de miles de soldados cada mes, y avanza lentamente en la región oriental del Donbás. Ucrania, por su parte, sigue defendiendo su territorio con un ejército inferior en número e intenta recuperar terreno donde puede, incluso en el sur.

La otra guerra llega en oleadas desde el cielo. Va dirigida contra ciudades lejanas y emplazamientos militares en ambos países, a menudo en la oscuridad de la noche, y se ha vuelto más letal tanto para ucranianos como para rusos.

Los objetivos de estos ataques aéreos van más allá de lo puramente militar. Kiev busca agravar el impacto económico del Kremlin, hacer que la guerra afecte directamente a los rusos y obligar al presidente Vladimir Putin a aceptar un alto el fuego en condiciones que él no imponga. Para Moscú, se trata de la continuación de una campaña que lleva años intentando minar la resistencia ucraniana y hacer que las ciudades sean inhabitables.

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La batalla aérea se está intensificando a medida que ambos bandos producen armas cada vez más innovadoras y a mayor escala.

Ataques con misiles balísticos de Ucrania contra Rusia

Rusia está equipando drones económicos, inspirados en el Shahed iraní, con motores a reacción; lanzando una constelación de satélites para guiar sus armas; y desplegando misiles de crucero de bajo costo que cubren la brecha entre los drones de ataque lentos y los misiles estratégicos avanzados. Aviones de combate rusos disparan bombas planeadoras guiadas por satélite que arrasan sistemáticamente pueblos y ciudades.

Ucrania está desarrollando un arsenal en constante evolución de drones e híbridos de misiles y drones con sistemas avanzados de navegación y comunicación que les permiten atacar con mayor precisión en todo el territorio ruso. El presidente Volodímir Zelenski se ha comprometido a acelerar los ataques aéreos mientras Ucrania prueba sus primeros misiles balísticos de fabricación nacional.

Ambos países están utilizando nuevos métodos para resistir las interferencias electrónicas y empleando sistemas autónomos que dirigen las armas hacia sus objetivos sin intervención humana.

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A medida que Rusia y Ucrania amplían sus arsenales ofensivos, sus defensas aéreas tienen dificultades para mantenerse al día.

Ucrania se enfrenta a una grave escasez de misiles interceptores Patriot de diseño estadounidense, la única defensa del país contra los misiles balísticos rusos.

Un bombero trabaja en el lugar de una zona residencial afectada por ataques con drones y misiles rusos, en la región de Lviv, Ucrania. Foto Reuters

Zelenski ha instruido a sus diplomáticos para que presionen con mayor ahínco a los aliados para que suministren más misiles Patriot. Sin embargo, la disminución de las reservas mundiales, consecuencia de la guerra en Irán, ha dificultado la tarea, y el presidente Trump ha dado marcha atrás en su promesa de permitir que Ucrania produzca misiles Patriot en los próximos años.

Para Rusia, uno de los principales desafíos es defender un vasto territorio que fue una ventaja en guerras pasadas, pero que ahora se ha convertido en una desventaja debido a la producción masiva de drones de ataque de largo alcance por parte de Ucrania. Al adaptar software, hardware y tácticas, Kiev ha abierto brechas en la que fuera la red de defensa aérea más robusta del mundo.

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Anatolii Khrapchynskyi, oficial de la reserva de la Fuerza Aérea Ucraniana y analista militar, afirmó que antes de que los rusos lanzaran su invasión a gran escala en 2022, confiaban en la disuasión que les proporcionaba su arsenal nuclear. Según él, las defensas aéreas «solo podían cubrir alrededor del 40 por ciento de sus instalaciones militares estratégicas».

Cuando la invasión se estancó y Rusia no logró establecer la superioridad aérea, los comandantes rusos se apresuraron a acercar sistemas defensivos como el Pantsir y el Tor a Ucrania. Si bien esto protegió la línea del frente, dejó sin protección a las bases militares y los centros industriales del interior de Rusia.

Según los analistas, ahora cada lanzador y sistema de radar destruido obliga a Moscú a elegir entre salvaguardar el frente o defender el interior del país.

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«El desafío de Rusia es fundamentalmente geográfico», afirmó Justin Bronk, investigador sénior del Royal United Services Institute, un centro de estudios sobre seguridad con sede en Londres. «Cuando Ucrania obliga a Rusia a retirar sus sistemas del frente para proteger ciudades o refinerías en la retaguardia, se crean brechas por todas partes».

Si bien Rusia aún cuenta con una sólida protección aérea, la presión ha fracturado el escudo del país en defensas aisladas, lo que Ucrania está aprovechando con ataques tanto en el interior de Rusia como más cerca del frente para socavar la logística rusa.

El ataque a la refinería central de petróleo de Moscú en junio, que provocó una densa columna de humo negro sobre la capital rusa, demostró que incluso el principal bastión del Kremlin podía ser vulnerado.

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Según los analistas, Kiev amplió recientemente sus objetivos para incluir los almacenes del mayor minorista en línea de Rusia, Wildberries, lo que obligó a Moscú a replantearse nuevamente la forma en que distribuye sus defensas.

Para tapar las brechas que van surgiendo, Rusia ha recurrido a soluciones provisionales como la instalación de baterías Pantsir en edificios altos para obtener un mejor campo de visión y el despliegue de buques de guerra para proteger regiones del norte como Murmansk.

Los comandantes ucranianos también señalaron un cambio en su propia doctrina. En lugar de esperar la aprobación centralizada, los pilotos están autorizados a desviarse de los objetivos de la misión planificada si detectan una oportunidad para atacar un objetivo prioritario, como un radar o un lanzador ruso.

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Donde Ucrania no puede competir con Rusia es en su escala industrial. Moscú produce miles de drones de ataque estandarizados, señuelos y misiles de crucero. Los servicios de inteligencia ucranianos estiman que Rusia produce alrededor de 120 misiles balísticos al mes, superando la producción total de interceptores Patriot de Estados Unidos.

El arsenal ruso está siendo reforzado con misiles procedentes de Corea del Norte, según afirmaron funcionarios ucranianos, citando como prueba los restos recogidos tras un ataque perpetrado el jueves pasado en la ciudad central de Kryvyi Rih, en el que murió una familia de 10 personas.

Moscú también está desarrollando sus propios drones interceptores, que Ucrania ha utilizado con gran eficacia, y aún mantiene en servicio un número significativo de sofisticadas baterías de defensa aérea S-400 y S-300.

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Fundamentalmente, el sector industrial de defensa de Rusia cuenta con el respaldo de cadenas de suministro que han resistido las sanciones, aprovechando la microelectrónica extranjera y la tecnología china de doble uso para adaptar rápidamente sus sistemas.

La estrategia de Rusia se basa en un cálculo frío: que puede agotar las defensas de Ucrania antes de que su propia red colapse.

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Crowded Russian beach descends into chaos after alleged Ukrainian drone incident kills 7, including 4 children

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Vacationers were sent scrambling for safety Monday after a projectile struck a crowded beach in a Russian Black Sea resort town, killing seven people, including four children, and injuring dozens more, officials said.

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Video footage captured the incident in the village of Arkhipo-Osipovka near Gelendzhik, where the beach was packed with visitors at the time of the strike.

The Russian Mission in Geneva said in a post on X that the «bloody attack» was carried out by a drone launched by Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of targeting civilians.

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A projectile flies overhead near Arkhipo-Osipovka, Russia, on Monday. (Social media via Reuters)

«The attack targeted civilian infrastructure. Emergency and special services are working at the crash site,» regional Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev said in a post on Telegram.

«What happened today is a targeted attack by the Kyiv regime against civilians who have no connection to the military infrastructure. This cynical and inhumane terrorist attack against children cannot be justified.» 

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UKRAINE UNLEASHES MORE THAN 400 DRONES NEAR MOSCOW IN ONE OF WAR’S BIGGEST ATTACKS

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A fiery explosion rocks a Black Sea beach resort in Russia on Monday. (Social media via Reuters)

Andriy Kovalenko, an officer with Ukraine’s Defense Forces, disputed Russia’s account, saying the deaths were directly caused by Russian air defenses that intercepted a drone, sending debris onto the beach.

«Russian air defense shot down a drone over people lying on the beach,» Kovalenko said on Telegram.

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In the video, sounds resembling gunfire were heard just seconds before a drone struck the beach, causing a fireball explosion that sent bystanders screaming. As the gunfire was heard, the drone appeared to veer sharply before diving toward the beach.

Preliminary Russian reports also found that several of the deaths were caused by «falling drone debris,» Kondratyev said.

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In another Telegram post, Kovalenko indicated that Ukraine uses its weapons against Russian military-industrial infrastructure to affect Moscow’s ability to finance the war.

He further accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of creating an «illusion» that Russia would remain safe from the war by downplaying daily explosions as falling debris, limiting air raid warnings, and positioning air defenses near populated areas such as the Black Sea resort.

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Smoke rises after a deadly blast along a Russian resort beach on Monday. (Social media via Reuters)

«Putin deliberately killed these people. Because if he had not started the war and struck Ukraine, they would be alive,» Kovalenko said.

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«It was Putin, his air defense, who killed these Russians. His decisions in response to their decisions launched a chain of death for Russians.»



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