The Housing bill is full of big government garbage & spending. Yet the @HouseGOP is going to muscle it through with democrats tomorrow over conservative opposition. Just a few of its sins:
1. Rep Tlaib’s Sec. 207 (H.R. 6768), which is a $200 million affordable housing pilot program to incentivize dense subsidized ‘affordable housing’ units.
2. Sec. 101: ‘reforms’ housing counseling agencies (HCAs) to provide rental dispute services to bad tenants facing lawful eviction. There is no reason we should be providing government-funded counselors to help people derail lawful evictions.
3. Sec. 106: establishes an eviction helpline program. For the same reasons as above, we should not subsidize the derailing of lawful eviction process for bad tenants.
4. A three-year authorization (with a ‘sense of Congress’ that it should be extended permanently) of the controversial Community Development Block Grant Disaster Relief (CDBG-DR) program. The program is controversial because its dispersement has been seriously flawed in the past - payments have taken years to be made,and the allocations have overwhelmingly gone to dense metro areas, ignoring rural communities... it should be scrapped entirely, and disaster repair payments should only be done by FEMA.
5. Indefinitely reauthorizes the HOME grant program and significantly expands the criteria for eligibility.
6. 7-year authorization of what had been an original Senate Pilot program to the Preservation and Reinvestment Initiative for Community Enhancement (PRICE) which authorizes HUD to provide grants to grantees like NGOs, government agencies, and other organizations to purchase trailer parks, on the condition that they charge “affordable” rent.
7. RAD Program: Authorizes the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program reauthorization (which the house removed) and increases the cap to 100,000 units. This program is terrible as it provides vouchers for localities to raise money to convert units into long-term section 8 housing.
8. Does nothing to limit Foreign Ownership: Similar to Rep. Stuebe’s amendment to the farm bill on FCOC and FEOC bans on agricultural land purchases, language should have been included for aforeign adversary ban on housing stock purchases… there is no language prohibiting a Chinese citizen or company from buying an American single-family home.
9. Does nothing to 1) Make Sanctuary jurisdictions ineligible for housing grant funding. 2) or Codify Trump’s ‘Mixed Status’ rule, which prohibits the prorating of housing welfare and benefits to households with illegal or ineligible alien residents.
10. Keeps Eviction Moratorium: Included in the CARES Act, was a 30-day eviction moratorium. While most of the CARES Act sunsetted or has been repealed post-COVID, this provision remains on the books.
When Trisha and I decided to enter this race nearly eighteen months ago, we knew the path to victory would be neither certain nor easy. But we were driven by a deep love for Michigan and an unshakable faith in its people and its future.
We ran to deliver a “Make It In Michigan” agenda for the farmers, families, autoworkers, seniors, and small business owners who have kept this state strong despite years of failed Democratic policies in Lansing. Over the past 18 months, I’ve had the honor of visiting all 83 counties, meeting salt-of-the-earth Michiganders who still believe the American Dream is alive here.
Trisha and I entered this race because we worry that the promise we grew up with — hard work, faith in God, and the drive that built America’s auto industry and middle class — is slipping away for our three young children. I ran to reverse the decline under Democrat control and bring President Trump’s proven successes to Michigan: cutting taxes, lowering costs, deporting criminal illegal immigrants, and restoring manufacturing jobs.
This campaign has always been about the people of Michigan and standing with President Trump to defeat the Democrats in November. Today, I am suspending my campaign and proudly joining President Trump in endorsing John James as Michigan’s next Governor.
John James is a decorated combat veteran who flew helicopters in Iraq, a successful businessman who created jobs, and a fighter who has consistently stood with President Trump’s agenda. He is the best candidate to defeat the Whitmer-Benson agenda of higher taxes, higher prices, woke policies, and incompetent leadership. A divided primary only helps Democrats. It’s time to unite. I’m asking every one of you who supported this campaign to stand with me behind John James, roll up our sleeves, and deliver a Republican victory in November.
To the hundreds of dedicated volunteers, supporters, and staff — and to every Michigander who offered encouragement and prayers — thank you. I am humbled by your trust and inspired by your belief in our state. To Trisha and our family, thank you for sharing me with this fight. I’m coming home a little sooner, but the mission continues.
As Senate Republican Leader, I will keep fighting every single day for the people of Michigan — and starting today, I’ll be fighting to elect John James our next governor.
Let’s win in November. Let’s Make Michigan Great Again.
BREAKING NEWS: ABC is ACTUALLY covering MIKE LINDELL POLLING #1 in his Run for Minnesota Governor!
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Michigan woman records 24/7 data center in Dowagiac affecting approx. 1,300 homes. Constant noise causes headaches & sleepless nights. A class-action lawsuit been filed
It feels like just yesterday when Gavin Newsom took a moment out of his State of the State address to make sure everybody knew about all the amazing work LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho was doing.
So it is quite fitting that today Carvalho resigns in disgrace after the FBI raided his home and office
Here it is:
Democrats say, “There’s no evidence of voter fraud.”
Well, here is a Democrat—not just a Democrat, but August Gitschlag, the Elections Clerk in Fraser, Michigan.
Caught on hidden camera explaining how to steal an election.
Election Clerk August Gitschlag: “These guys will go door-to-door and take people’s ballots. They bully them, and then the people hand over their ballots.
Voter fraud happens in small ethnic communities when someone is more assimilated and can run the show through intimidation. They say, ‘If you don’t vote for me, your cousin will have nowhere to live next year when he comes in.’
They go around the neighborhood with absentee ballot applications and have people sign them. Then they have some candidate drop them all off at City Hall.
After that, they know when the ballots go out, so they go back to the person’s house and say, ‘Give it up. Sign the envelope. Give me the ballot.’
They’re harvesters. I admit it.”
Ro Khanna…the smug socialist who wants to tax billionaires into oblivion to pay for his “free” utopia, is somehow Congress’s #1 stock trader!!!
4,300 trades last YEAR. $59 million in volume. And just bought himself a cozy $9.5 million mansion in DC!
These hypocritical parasites don’t want to drain the swamp. They want to OWN the swamp, get filthy rich off it, and lecture the rest of us about “equity” while they live like kings on our dime.
Eat the rich? Start with your own damn party, you HYPOCRITICAL grifting fraud.
🚨 HUGE BREAKING NEWS OUT OF MINNESOTA
@realMikeLindell is leading the GOP field for Governor, polling at 27% in the latest @ABC poll - ahead of his closest rivals at 22% and 17%.
And Lindell says this is now the 4th straight poll showing him on top.
If the election were held today, Lindell would likely win the Republican primary and head toward a major showdown with @AmyKlobuchar.
Minnesota has been rocked by allegations of waste, fraud, and corruption - including taxpayer-funded programs where vulnerable people were allegedly neglected while fraudsters billed the system.
That’s the swamp Lindell and his running mate @PhilipCParrish say they’re running to drain.
Parrish, a veteran and whistleblower on Minnesota fraud, says the state needs a full-scale cleanup of what he calls a “criminal syndicate” of waste and grift.
Their plan: a Minnesota DOGE to root out fraud, cut waste, lower taxes, secure elections with paper ballots, and make Minnesota affordable again.
Minnesota is officially one of the races to watch.
All Abdul El-Sayed knows how to do is lie, lie, and lie some more. @MikeRogersForMI just called his bluff.
"The truth is, Abdul El-Sayed would much rather lie to Michigan voters about who I am than be honest to you about who he is."