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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.
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.
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)
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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.
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.»
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.
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.
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.
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.
«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.»
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.
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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‘Shadow government’: Trump claims intel community bragged about hiding Chinese meddling
Trump will not sign housing bill without voter ID, criticizes Senate
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social, declaring he will not sign the housing bill despite congressional approval. He protests the Senate’s inability to pass The SAVE America Act, which he claims is supported by 97% of Republicans and many Democrats. Trump emphasizes the need for photo voter ID and proof of citizenship to prevent voter fraud.
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President Donald Trump accused members of the U.S. intelligence community Thursday night of operating a «shadow government» to allegedly conceal evidence of China’s efforts to influence U.S. elections, seizing on newly declassified emails that he says reveal a bitter internal dispute about how Beijing’s activities should be characterized.
Trump did not claim China changed votes or altered election results. Instead, he argued Beijing engaged in an influence campaign aimed at shaping U.S. public perceptions.
Trump claimed intelligence officials kept significant reporting out of his presidential briefings and highlighted an email in which a National Security Agency analyst allegedly wrote, «We have deliberately massaged our one pending (presidential daily brief) to avoid any direct links to the election.»
«Those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information secret and hidden,» Trump claimed. «They did not disclose (it) to me as president or to anyone else.»
Trump gives address to the nation on elections. (Saul Loeb/Pool via Reuters)
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Trump used the disclosures to press Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, casting the newly released intelligence as evidence that lawmakers must tighten federal election rules before the midterms.
«Most importantly, addressing this crisis of election security demands that Congress must pass the SAVE America Act,» Trump said. «These reforms are urgently needed to stop the vulnerabilities that I’ve mentioned.»
The SAVE America Act passed the House in February but stalled in the Senate in March, when a 53–47 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance it. Trump urged Americans to call their senators and representatives and demand its passage «without delay.»
The White House, ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump, addresses the nation from the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 16, 2026. (REUTERS/Kylie Cooper )
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The legislation would require documentary proof of citizenship to register for federal elections, photo identification to vote and ongoing state efforts to identify and remove noncitizens from voter rolls. Absentee voters would be required to submit a copy of an eligible photo ID when requesting a ballot and again when returning it.
Trump also called for eliminating mail-in voting except in cases of illness, disability, military deployment or travel. The current text of the SAVE America Act does not include that prohibition — it permits absentee voting subject to identification requirements.
Trump urged Americans to call their representatives and demand the bill’s passage «without delay.»
The newly released emails show that analysts disagreed over whether any alleged Chinese influence operations and intelligence collection should be explicitly linked to elections. After the NSA analyst described «massaging» the President’s Daily Brief, other intelligence officials questioned the decision, with one writing that «the mind boggles» and another calling the approach «highly irregular.»
Gualala, CA, July 4, 2020 – Person mailing United States absentee ballot for voting in an election by mail.
One official alleged the intelligence community was «deliberately avoiding mentioning a connection to elections for non-substantive reasons,» according to a November 2020 email. That official sought to reconnect the intelligence to the election-security assessment and prevent what another described as an «analytic objectivity mistake.»
The documents, however, do not establish Trump’s broader allegation of a politically motivated conspiracy. Instead, they portray competing intelligence assessments over whether China’s actions amounted to an effort to influence the presidential contest or a broader campaign focused on U.S. policies, public opinion and issues important to Beijing.
Trump went further Thursday, claiming an FBI official wrote that she was running a «shadow government» to prevent the China intelligence from becoming public.
The Chinese embassy could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Trump directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Justice Department, FBI and CIA Thursday to investigate why the intelligence was withheld, fire anyone found to have participated in a cover-up and pursue criminal charges «if appropriate.»
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said in response to the address: «Americans heard the president once again repeat claims about our elections that have been investigated for years and repeatedly rejected by the Intelligence Community.»
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Qué dice la carta enviada por los kelpers a la FIFA sobre la bandera de Malvinas en el partido de Argentina e Inglaterra
El gobierno kelper de las Islas Malvinas envió este jueves una carta formal a la Comisión Disciplinaria de la Federación Internacional de Fútbol (FIFA) para reclamar que el organismo analice la exhibición de una bandera con el mensaje “Las Malvinas son argentinas” por parte de jugadores de la Selección dirigida por Lionel Scaloni tras la victoria ante Inglaterra en la semifinal del Mundial y que, de corresponder, aplique sanciones.
El escrito, fechado 16 de julio de 2026 y firmado por Jack Ford, presidente de la Asamblea Legislativa de las islas, sostiene que el episodio constituyó “una clara declaración política relacionada con la soberanía de las Islas Falkland”.
Además, menciona la difusión de videos en los que integrantes del plantel de Scaloni entonaron cánticos vinculados con el reclamo argentino sobre el archipiélago.
“Nos decepciona, aunque lamentablemente no nos sorprende, este tipo de comportamiento”, señala la carta enviada al organismo con sede en Zúrich.
En el texto, las autoridades isleñas recuerdan que, según su interpretación, no se trata del primer episodio de este tipo y mencionan una sanción aplicada por la FIFA a la Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (AFA) en 2014 por una conducta similar.
El futbolista Giovani Lo Celso sostiene una bandera con la frase «Las Malvinas Son Argentinas» junto a su compañero de equipo Nicolás Otamendi tras la victoria 2-1 ante Inglaterra en las semifinales del Mundial, el miércoles 15 de julio de 2026, en Atlanta. (AP Foto/Rebecca Blackwell)
El gobierno de las islas argumentó que la utilización de símbolos vinculados con la disputa de soberanía contradice las normas de la FIFA que prohíben la exhibición de mensajes políticos, religiosos o personales durante los partidos y eventos organizados por la entidad.
“La FIFA debería tener en cuenta este contexto a la hora de tomar su decisión”, expresaron en referencia a la guerra de 1982 y al impacto que, según sostienen, tuvo aquel conflicto en la población de las islas.
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En la misiva, el presidente de la Asamblea Legislativa también señaló el resultado del referéndum realizado en 2013 sobre el estatus político del territorio, en el que —según indicó— el 99,8% de los votantes se pronunció a favor de continuar como territorio británico de ultramar.
“El fútbol es, ante todo, un deporte, y la política del Gobierno de las Islas Falkland es que no se introduzca la política en el deporte”, afirmó el texto, que respaldó además las declaraciones del ministro británico Peter Kyle sobre la separación entre política y competencias deportivas.
Hasta el momento, la FIFA no informó si abrirá una investigación ni si tomará alguna medida disciplinaria por la celebración de los futbolistas argentinos tras el triunfo ante Inglaterra.
Esta es la carta completa:
Gobierno de las Islas Falkland, Oficina de la Asamblea Legislativa, Sulivan House, Ross Road, Stanley, Islas Falkland. Teléfono: +500 27451. Correo electrónico: assembly@sec.gov.fk
16 de julio de 2026
Comisión Disciplinaria de la FIFA FIFA-Strasse 20 8044 Zúrich Suiza
Estimados señores y señoras:
Asunto: Manifestación de mensajes políticos por parte de la selección nacional de Argentina tras el partido entre Inglaterra y Argentina, celebrado el 15 de julio de 2026
Les escribo en nombre de la Asamblea Legislativa de las Islas Falkland, el órgano elegido democráticamente que representa al pueblo de las Islas Falkland, en relación con un asunto ocurrido tras el partido entre Inglaterra y Argentina del 15 de julio de 2026.
Tras la victoria de Argentina, varios miembros de la selección argentina mostraron un cartel en el que se leía “Las Malvinas son argentinas”, en lo que constituyó una clara declaración política relacionada con la soberanía de las Islas Falkland. También se filtraron videos tras el partido entre Argentina y Egipto en los que la selección argentina entonaba cánticos sobre las Islas Falkland en sus vestuarios. Nos decepciona, aunque lamentablemente no nos sorprende, este tipo de comportamiento, ya que no es el primer incidente de este tipo: la Asociación Argentina de Fútbol fue sancionada con 20 000 libras por la FIFA en 2014 por una conducta similar.
Planteamos este asunto a la atención de la FIFA por los siguientes motivos:
1. Coherencia con las propias normas de la FIFA. Los Estatutos y el Código Disciplinario de la FIFA prohíben el uso de los partidos y las instalaciones de fútbol para transmitir mensajes políticos, religiosos o personales [Código de Conducta en los Estadios de la FIFA, sección 2.14, y Código Disciplinario de la FIFA, artículos 15.1 y 17.2.e].
2. Las personas afectadas por este acto tienen una posición democrática consolidada. Las Islas Falkland son un territorio británico de ultramar diverso, autónomo y autofinanciado; y, como tal, participan a nivel internacional en actividades deportivas, científicas y humanitarias. En el referéndum de 2013 sobre nuestro estatus político, el 99,8 % de los habitantes de las Islas Falkland votó a favor de seguir siendo un territorio británico de ultramar, con una participación de aproximadamente el 92 %, en una votación supervisada de forma independiente por observadores internacionales. Las Islas Falkland fueron invadidas por Argentina en 1982, lo que dio lugar a una ocupación hostil de 74 días. Los acontecimientos de esta guerra dejaron a los habitantes de las Islas Falkland traumatizados, por lo que actos políticos como los que tuvieron lugar tras el partido resultan especialmente insensibles para la población de las Falkland. La FIFA debería tener en cuenta este contexto a la hora de tomar su decisión.
El fútbol es, ante todo, un deporte, y la política del Gobierno de las Islas Falkland es que no se introduzca la política en el deporte, por lo que apoyamos la declaración del ministro británico Peter Kyle en este sentido.
Atentamente,
[Firma manuscrita: Jack Ford]
Jack Ford, diputado y presidente, en nombre de la Asamblea Legislativa de las Islas Falkland.
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EXCLUSIVE: Hawley expands USPS probe with blistering letter accusing chief of dodging Congress
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FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is expanding his investigation into the U.S. Postal Service, accusing Postmaster General David Steiner of ignoring congressional oversight while demanding records on the agency’s use of outside restructuring consultants as USPS projects billions more in financial losses.
In a letter obtained by Fox News Digital, the Missouri Republican said his office has received no documents in response to a June 30 oversight request and informed Steiner that the investigation will now examine USPS’ hiring of consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal.
«To date, my office has received no documents in compliance with my June 30 letter,» Hawley wrote. «Is it your intention simply to ignore statutory oversight? I expect full compliance with my oversight requests immediately.»
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Postmaster General David Steiner testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee during a June 24 hearing on reforming the U.S. Postal Service’s business model in Washington, D.C. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Hawley said Congress must review USPS’ relationship with Alvarez & Marsal, a restructuring firm Steiner disclosed earlier this year had been hired to help the postal service plan for its financial future.
The senator questioned why USPS is paying outside consultants while projecting another multibillion-dollar loss and continuing to award executive bonuses.
«It is surprising to me that as you complain about this monetary crisis, you and other USPS executives continue to rake in annual bonus packages and have found plenty of cash to hire these outside consultants like A&M — all while service declines and far too many Americans are not receiving their mail,» Hawley wrote.
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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., appears during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill July 16, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Eric Lee/Getty Images)
Hawley is requesting records detailing who hired Alvarez & Marsal, how much the firm has been paid and whether it was asked to recommend closing rural post offices, limiting rural delivery or reviewing executive compensation. He also inquired about whether USPS plans to release the firm’s recommendations to Congress or the public.
The expanded investigation comes weeks after Fox News Digital first reported Hawley launched an oversight probe into USPS over dumped mail in St. Louis, demanding records on delayed deliveries, possible criminal misconduct and executive bonuses.
That inquiry followed a contentious Senate hearing in June, where Hawley pressed Steiner over thousands of pieces of dumped mail discovered in St. Louis.
Hawley later criticized the postmaster general for saying he was unaware of the incident and publicly called for his resignation if he refused to return his performance bonus.
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A row of USPS delivery trucks parked outside a postal site. (Spencer Jones/GHI/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
In his latest letter, Hawley said the USPS has yet to comply with his original document requests.
Hawley noted USPS has lost an estimated $25 billion over the past three fiscal years and is projecting at least an $8.1 billion loss in fiscal year 2026 despite reforms Congress approved in 2022 to improve the agency’s finances.
«If the Postal Service plans to address its losses through hiring A&M, then Congress must be apprised of the nature of the engagement and A&M’s recommendations to ensure that USPS service standards — such as universal service and rural delivery — do not continue to decline in any agency restructuring plan,» Hawley wrote.
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The senator requested USPS respond to his expanded oversight questions by July 24.
USPS did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.
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