California U.S. Representative Jimmy Gomez, a Democrat representing the Los Angeles area, filed an ambitious new bill on Wednesday which would redirect billions put aside by the Trump administration to fund its immigration crackdown toward helping Americans become homeowners.

"My intention with this bill is to tackle one of the biggest crises that our country is facing, which is the housing affordability crisis," Gomez told Newsweek in a phone interview. "And at the same time doing that by taking that $175 billion anti-immigrant slush fund that Trump put into his One Big Beautiful Bill and using that money to lower the cost of housing for everybody in the country.

"We do that by investing in renter assistance, down payment for every first-time homebuyer, building new starter homes an

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