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Senate passes anti-Iran war resolution with 4 Republican votes

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The Senate voted Tuesday to pass a resolution requiring President Trump to cease the Iran war — which ended last week with a memorandum of understanding.

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Republicans brace for Trump SAVE Act showdown

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Republicans brace for Trump SAVE Act showdown

Sens. Mike Lee and Rick Scott have teed up what could be a tense, confrontational lunch Wednesday with President Trump and Senate Republicans.The two spent months pressuring Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on the SAVE America Act. Now Trump will be in the room with them.Why it matters: Trump is fixated on passing the SAVE Act to help Republicans in the midterms. But Thune is insistent that Republicans don't have the votes."There are not the votes to nuke the filibuster, and there aren't going to be 10 Democrat votes to all of a sudden support the SAVE America Act," Thune told reporters on Tuesday.SAVE would require voter ID and proof of citizenship, while imposing new restrictions on mail-in voting.Zoom in: Scott (R-Fla.) invited Trump to attend the weekly lunch put on by the conservative Senate GOP Steering Committee.Thune laughed when asked whether Scott checked with him before extending the invite. "Well, he told me he did it," Thune told reporters.Scott sent a letter to senators Monday outlining what he thinks the chamber's focus should be — including passing the SAVE America Act or parts of it, according to a copy Axios obtained.Between the lines: Senate GOP leadership has largely learned to negotiate with and work around staunch conservatives like Lee (R-Utah) and Scott. But some senators are losing patience."I never speak ill of members when they want to be professional," Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) told reporters Tuesday after accusing Lee of "naivete" or wanting "to get more likes on social media posts.""But when you do some of the bullshit [Lee has] done on social media, that's why he gets these comments out here," he added."I think Mike Lee is contributing to this fantasy that somehow it's going to happen," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told reporters.The big picture: The SAVE Act got 48 votes earlier this month when Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tried adding it as an amendment to the budget reconciliation bill.Former GOP leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Tillis voted against it.The closest the GOP got was 53 votes for a narrower amendment requiring photo ID to vote. Three other amendments requiring IDs for registering to vote or requiring proof of citizenship failed to get more than 50 votes when they came up in April and June."The will is not there, and the votes aren't there. ... I'm into reality," Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) told Axios when asked about Lee and Scott's efforts.But Scott and Lee are publicly pushing leadership to use aggressive procedural tactics until the bill passes."Let's pass the SAVE America Act now," Lee replied Monday to a post from Thune's X account. "As I've been asking you to do for months, please bring it up now and announce that we will debate it until it passes."Thune retorted Tuesday: "Sometimes when something hasn't been done in 100 years there's a reason for that."

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Congress passes the largest housing affordability bill in decades

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Congress passes the largest housing affordability bill in decades

An expansive bipartisan bill intended to bring down the cost of housing by boosting the supply of homes has passed both houses of Congress, and is headed to the president's desk for a signature.

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House passes sweeping bill to lower housing costs, sending it to Trump’s desk

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House passes sweeping bill to lower housing costs, sending it to Trump’s desk

The House passed a major housing affordability bill Tuesday aimed at boosting the supply of homes and cracking down on large investors buying up houses.

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Congress passes landmark housing affordability bill, sending it to Trump before midterm elections

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Congress passes landmark housing affordability bill, sending it to Trump before midterm elections

The House of Representatives gave the final green light to a bipartisan housing bill designed to boost housing supply, legislation designed to alleviate the cost-of-living woes suffered by many families. The House voted 358-32 to pass the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act on Tuesday after the Senate passed the legislation on Monday evening. The […]

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The Five Republican Senators Who Voted Against the Bipartisan Housing Affordability Bill

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The Five Republican Senators Who Voted Against the Bipartisan Housing Affordability Bill

The legislation is poised to be the largest housing package to be signed into law in decades.

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Alan Wilson Wins Republican Primary for South Carolina Governor

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Alan Wilson Wins Republican Primary for South Carolina Governor

The runoff was one of the few races this year featuring both candidates endorsed by President Trump. His picks have had mixed results in governor’s contests.

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Congress passes big housing bill with bipartisan support

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Congress passes big housing bill with bipartisan support

With rare bipartisan support, the House passed a housing bill Tuesday evening that aims to address the shortage of affordable homes in the U.S.Why it matters: The bill, the Road to Housing Act, shows that the housing crisis is something both parties actually agree needs to be addressed, even as it is unlikely to bring much short-term relief for homebuyers.The bill, which passed in a 358-32 vote, mainly aims to relax local regulations and encourage building. It now heads to President Trump, who is expected to sign it.The version that passed the Senate Monday evening in an 85-5 vote also contains a watered-down version of a measure initially meant to ban private equity firms from owning and buying single-family homes. The final version won't require any firms to divest their properties but does ban them from buying more than 350 homes at once.Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), one of the bill's architects, tells Axios that the private equity measure is still very meaningful. "Road to housing is the first time that Congress has said to private equity, 'Enough: You don't get to move in to one neighborhood after another in America, and turn us from a nation of owners to a nation of renters'."Zoom in: There are nearly 50 different measures in the bill, which basically combines various housing proposals from both sides of the aisle.One, called the Build Now Act, offers localities that build more housing a bigger slice of existing federal funding — it does that by cutting money for other regions that are building less.One provision likely to have impact quickly makes it easier and cheaper to build manufactured housing. The big picture: The bill doesn't address the two biggest issues plaguing the real estate market right now: high mortgage rates and the steep rise in home prices over the past five years.Between the lines: There's not much lawmakers can do, or want to do, on either of those fronts. Mortgage rates are tied to the yield on the 10-year Treasury note — a number that's controlled, essentially, by market forces and the Federal Reserve."We don't control the interest rate environment. There's nothing that this bill could do to control the Federal Reserve, so that's probably good news," says Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who spearheaded the legislation along with Warren. "People want an independent Fed," he tells Axios.Friction point: Scott also acknowledges that one of the trickiest aspects of making homes more affordable is the tension between existing homeowners who don't want to see the value of their property fall and first-time buyers who want prices to come down so they can afford a house."You don't want to make housing more affordable by taking the current stock and reducing the price, which means that you're having a cataclysmic experience."Instead, the idea is to increase the number of affordable "starter" homes on the market.Follow the money: There's also a crypto provision tucked into the legislation. It forbids the federal government from issuing a digital dollar — something the crypto industry has been gunning for.Why is that in the legislation? "It gets the bill passed. That's it," says Scott.The House wanted it, he says. The House also relaxed a controversial measure that originally sought to ban institutional investors from owning single-family homes. Backers argue that private equity firms and other big investors play a role in keeping home prices too high when they scoop up single-family homes and either rent them out or sell them. The provision, which had the support of Trump, met resistance from House Republicans.The final version lets investors hold on to the homes they already own, and prohibits only future purchases that would bring an institutional investor's holdings above 350 homes.(Go deeper)The bottom line: "This bill is not about a single magic bullet that will fix our housing problem," Warren tells Axios. "This is a big bill, but we have an even bigger housing problem. We need to do more."

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What to Know About the Landmark Housing Bill Congress Is Poised to Pass

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What to Know About the Landmark Housing Bill Congress Is Poised to Pass

The Senate overwhelmingly passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act on Monday. It is now headed to the House, where it is also expected to receive broad support.

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