This is an affordability crisis. We inherited a big affordability crisis. And we've got, as I've said,

President Trump's doing peace deals, tax deals, trade deals. We've got the tax deal in place.

As you kicked off the top of the segment with, the trade deals are largely done.

And now we can really

hone in on the affordability. At Treasury, we're going to be looking at what we can do for

housing, for student loans, for overall, because there is an affordability crisis. The first step

in easing the affordability crisis

was to bring down inflation. Inflation in May was down for the first time in four years.

So to address it, you've got to stop the increase first. And there are two ways to address it, the affordability crisis. You can stop

the inflation and you can have a very strong real wage gains, which is what I think this manufacturing

renaissance is going to do. It says Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump have agreed

to meet in the coming days. and a venue has even been selected.

The announcement comes just one day after Trump's envoy to the Middle East, Steve Whitkoff met with Putin in Moscow.

Trump called that meeting highly productive, adding that great progress was made.

Whitkoff has visited Moscow a handful of times in the past few months, highly productive, adding that great progress was made.

Whitkoff has visited Moscow a handful of times in the past few months as the Trump administration

pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine.

Now, it's not known exactly when Trump and Putin will meet, but yesterday a White House

official told NBC News the discussion could

happen as soon as next week if Putin also agrees to meet with Ukrainian President Volomir Zelensky.

It's not clear if Putin has agreed to that yet with the Kremlin aides saying their focus is on

preparing for the bilateral meeting with Trump.

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