Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On Donald Trump Continuing To Downplay The Affordability Crisis As Mortgage Rates Hit Year-Long High

WASHINGTON, D.C. – RealEstateRama – As Trump focuses on his exorbitant vanity projects, Americans can tell what he’s ignoring: lowering their costs.

As if Americans weren’t struggling enough already, they just saw mortgage rates hit their highest level in a year because of Trump’s disastrous war and failed economic agenda.

Trump has turned the American dream of owning a home into a pipedream.

Let’s not forget when Trump called our bipartisan bill to lower housing costs “a joke” and refused to sign it. He was belittling the need for housing.

This president acts like he’s allergic to helping Americans.

What does Trump have to say to the millions of families just trying to make it through the week as they drown in higher gas prices and grocery bills?

Trump said yesterday that Americans are living “in the greatest economy we’ve ever had by far.” Those were his words in Nevada yesterday.

In practically the same breath, Trump said “we may have to send [oil prices] up.”

The president’s lost any grip on reality. He’s so in his own world of creating monuments to himself that he’s forgetting the American people all the time. It’s not just he doesn’t think of them enough. He hardly thinks of them at all.

The greatest economy we’ve ever had? Tell that to the family that’s deciding between filling up their tank and filling up their fridge.

Tell that to the veteran I met who said that he sometimes has to choose between feeding his child and feeding his service dog.

Whatever fancy fantasy world Trump is living in sounds a whole lot nicer than the economic hardship Americans are struggling with right now.

Trump’s playbook has only one page: deny reality until the bill comes due and then send it to you, America.

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