by Sharon Rondeau
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(Dec. 28, 2025) — Toward the end of the final hour of Sunday’s Fox & Friends, HUD Secretary Scott Turner told co-host Griff Jenkins that housing affordability is a priority of the Trump administration in 2026, echoing a statement from White House spokesperson Kush Desai to CNN last week.
“There’s a myriad of ideas that have been discussed,” Turner said, which include “cutting red tape.”
FHA and Ginnie Mae are examples of potential bureaucracy reduction, he said. “Burdensome regulations” will be less restrictive, Turner predicted, and is one of a number of ideas, introduced by Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett publicly, to “be given to the president” to weigh.
According to Ginnie Mae’s website, “Ginnie Mae’s guaranty links the United States housing market to the global capital markets, ensuring sustainability, affordability, and liquidity for government housing programs and creating a housing finance system that serves the needs of all Americans.”
It has been reported that Hassett is under serious consideration for the next chairman of the Federal Reserve after current Chair Jerome Powell makes his expected exit in the spring.
Trump has long expressed his frustration with Powell, who he nominated for the post in late 2017, for failing to lower mortgage interest rates during what the president claims is the first year of the “Golden Age” of U.S. prosperity.
Asked whether 50-year mortgages, a suggestion Trump made in November, are a viable option for prospective homebuyers, Turner said the concept requires more consideration, but also that “we want to make sure that the housing market is secure” financially.
“At the end of the day, the president and other leaders will discuss what’s the best path, secure path,” for Americans to be “able to afford a home,” Turner said.