Trump's housing affordability proposals.
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Last week, President Donald Trump announced a pair of actions to address rising homeownership costs. On January 8, the president directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — government-sponsored mortgage-finance companies — to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds to bring down mortgage rates. On January 7, Trump said he was “taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes” and would ask Congress to codify those rules. The president said he will share more details about his housing affordability plans in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, next week.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle podcast, the place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. I'm your host for today, Tangle's managing editor, Ari Weitzman, and our topic is going to be President Trump's proposals to address housing affordability. It's a lot going on in the news. I think we all |
| 0:39.2 | know that, but this is an issue that has been pervasive throughout the past couple of years spanning |
| 0:45.0 | several different administrations, and I was really eager to get my take in today, not only recovering |
| 0:51.4 | President Trump's proposals, but I've got one of my own and curious to hear which of the two you think is better. |
| 0:58.8 | If either or both, find out. |
| 1:01.2 | But before we get started today, I'm going to send it over to my good friend John to kick us up. |
| 1:15.1 | Thanks, Ari, and welcome everybody. |
| 1:16.6 | Here are your quick hits for today. |
| 1:21.0 | First up, the United States withdrew some personnel from bases in the Middle East, |
| 1:28.4 | following comments from a senior Iranian official that the country would target U.S. bases in the region in retaliation for any airstrikes. |
| 1:33.0 | President Donald Trump said that he believes the Iranian regime has stopped killing protesters, |
| 1:36.7 | but he is monitoring the situation as he weighs potential strikes. |
| 1:42.3 | Separately, Middle East envoy Steve Whitkoff said that the Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza is moving to its second phase, which will involve disarming |
| 1:44.8 | Hamas, beginning the rebuilding of the strip, and establishing a transitional Palestinian administration. |
| 1:50.9 | Number two, a federal officer shot a man in the leg during an immigration enforcement |
| 1:54.8 | operation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Federal officials said the shooting victim was a |
| 1:59.0 | Venezuelan national who fled arrest and attacked |
| 2:01.6 | the officer with a snow shovel and a broom handle. Number three, Vice President J.D. Vance |
| 2:06.2 | cast the tie-breaking vote to defeat a war powers resolution in the Senate that would have blocked |
| 2:11.3 | President Trump from using military force within or against Venezuela. Senators Josh Hawley and |
| 2:16.6 | Todd Young voted to defeat the measure |
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