The swamp creatures in Washington just exposed themselves again. A damning new report reveals that senators from both parties who voted against the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act—legislation designed to stop massive investors from gobbling up rental properties—have suspicious financial ties to the very Wall Street vultures they're protecting.
Leading the corruption parade is Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, who had the audacity to be the ONLY Democrat voting against his own party's housing bill. Why would a supposed progressive turn his back on working families struggling to find affordable housing? Follow the money, patriots.
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act would have reined in the ability of large investment firms like BlackRock and other corporate predators to systematically buy up single-family homes and rental properties, pricing out regular Americans from homeownership. These Wall Street giants have been treating the American Dream like their personal ATM machine.
Wall Street's Political Puppets Revealed
According to financial disclosure reports, the senators who blocked this common-sense legislation have received campaign contributions and maintain investment portfolios tied to the exact same firms that would be impacted by the housing restrictions. Coincidence? Not a chance.
"This is exactly the kind of corporate cronyism that President Trump has been fighting against for years. While working families get priced out of neighborhoods their grandparents built, these corrupt politicians are making sure their Wall Street buddies keep getting richer."
It's no wonder the American people have lost faith in Washington's ability to put families first. When senators are more concerned about protecting their investment portfolios than protecting American homebuyers, the system is fundamentally broken.
This revelation perfectly illustrates why President Trump's America First agenda resonates with so many patriots. While establishment politicians—both Republican and Democrat—play footsie with Wall Street, Trump has consistently called out these corrupt relationships that harm everyday Americans.
The question every voter should be asking: How many more of our representatives are secretly working for corporate interests instead of We the People?