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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

The Truth with Lisa Boothe: Affordability Crisis Explained: Inflation, Housing Costs, Immigration, and the Real Economy Impacting Americans

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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Politics, Daily News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, News

4.311.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Lisa welcomes back EJ Antoni from The Heritage Foundation to break down America’s affordability crisis and the real-world economic pressures squeezing working families.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.3

Welcome to The Truth with Lisa Booth, where we get to the heart of the issues that matter to you.

0:09.3

Today we're talking about affordability.

0:11.2

President Trump begins his cross-country tour on affordability in battleground states like

0:16.8

Pennsylvania.

0:17.5

He's going to be talking about what he's done.

0:20.0

What does administration has done to make life easier for you? We're going to get talking about what he's done. What is the administration has done

0:21.4

to make life easier for you? We're going to get into it with E.J. Antony. He is the chief

0:26.4

economist at the Heritage Foundation. He's a friend of the show. We've had him on before.

0:31.4

To talk about President Trump's policies. Have they made life better? We'll talk about deregulation, the tax cuts, as well as the

0:39.6

tariffs. And then also, what impact does illegal immigration have on housing? So we'll dig into all

0:46.0

of that and more. Stay tuned for E.J.

0:53.0

Well, E.J., it's always great to have you on the show.

0:56.0

I want to talk to you about the buzzword affordability.

0:59.3

Everybody's talking about it.

1:00.7

I'm sure you've heard the word here or there in the past few weeks.

1:05.7

So appreciate you coming on and talking about it.

1:08.3

Yeah, my pleasure.

1:09.8

Lisa, I feel like the rest of the world is playing catch up to you and me. Were we like the only two talking about it. Yeah, my pleasure. Lisa, I feel like the rest of the world is

1:11.4

playing catch-up to you and me. Were we like the only two talking about affordability for four

1:16.2

stinking years before everyone else realized it was a problem? Yeah, so like, why weren't we talking about,

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