Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, delivered the following opening statement during a Housing and Insurance Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building Our Future: Increasing Housing Supply in America.”
As Prepared for Delivery
Committee Republicans claim to care about increasing housing supply, yet the Trump administration’s policies only make housing more expensive.
Today, Trump imposed taxes on imports from Canada and Mexico that will increase housing costs; has gutted enforcement of consumer protections and civil rights in housing; and House Republicans are doing nothing as the DOGE Ketamine [ket-uh-meen] Klan infiltrates the nation’s key housing agency.
So far, Musk has stolen funding from communities, illegally terminated staff, and accessed confidential data, including details about sexual assaults against women. All of this paves the way toward their end goal: evict America to put America’s housing in the hands of private equity investors.
I urge Republicans to man-up and hold Trump and co-President Musk accountable, and immediately call Secretary Turner up to testify.
With that, I ask unanimous consent to submit four statements into the record from the following organizations:
- The National Low Income Housing Coalition;
- National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials;
- NAACP-Legal Defense Fund; and
- National Association of Realtors.
I also request unanimous consent to submit two letters from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
- The first is a notice to a grantee that their fair housing grant has been cancelled at the direction of Elon Musk’s DOGE, stating that the civil rights funding no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities.
- The second is a letter from a field office informing a potential victim of housing discrimination that we have determined housing decisions based upon one’s sexual orientation are not subject to federal fair housing laws.
I yield back.
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