Hearing Turns Heated Over Housing and Immigration Claims (Full Transcript)
[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Secretary Benson, will you be the boss of reason in the administration and urge Trump to stop waging a war on American consumers and on housing affordability and putting the economy at risk? Yes or no? You don't have to explain.
[00:00:16] Speaker 2: Will you be the boss? Will you be the boss? Will you be the boss?
[00:00:20] Speaker 3: Will you be the boss of reason? Will you be the boss of reason? Yes or no? Reclaiming my time. Reclaiming my time. Reclaiming my time. Reclaiming my time was a mass embezzled immigration you let in between ten and twenty million immigrants who took up the housing stock.
[00:00:38] Speaker 4: Ten and twenty million immigrants took up the housing stock of working Americans, and can you maintian some level of dignity. Your gentleman's time has expired.
[00:00:48] Speaker 1: No, my time has not expired.
[00:00:50] Speaker 4: Your time has expired.
[00:00:51] Speaker 1: The gentleman took up my time. my time.
- The question centers on whether Secretary Benson will pressure Trump to stop actions portrayed as hurting consumers and housing affordability.
- Proceedings become disorderly with repeated interruptions and demands for a yes/no response.
- A claim is made—without evidence in the excerpt—that 10–20 million immigrants have reduced housing availability for working Americans.
- The chair enforces time rules, declaring the speaker’s time expired; the speaker contests this, arguing interruptions consumed his allotted time.