President Donald Trump often refers to the affordability crisis as a hoax. His White House may not agree.
Trump called the crisis a “fake” Democrat-created issue on the first night of the Republican National Committee’s first-ever midterm convention this week in Dallas. But the remark sits awkwardly beside months of White House messaging that has treated affordability as one of Trump’s central economic promises.
In his speech, Trump blamed former President Joe Biden for runaway inflation and said affordability concerns were fake “because I’m bringing the prices way down.” In the same speech, he promised that every adult US citizen would…
