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Mike Braun

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Mike Braun is an American businessman and politician currently serving as the junior United States senator from Indiana, a position he has held since January 3, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Braun has focused on issues such as fair representation and gerrymandering, advocating for equitable electoral maps in Indiana. His business background includes founding a successful auto parts company, which has informed his approach to economic policy and job creation.

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Jul 20, 2023

Spending policies, I think, have exacerbated an already unaffordable housing market.

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Jul 20, 2023

Can you cite a couple of the key regulations that drive costs up? And generally, they are always well intended, but then can work at cross-purposes for the affordability factor.

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Jul 20, 2023

I mean, that just seems outrageously high as a median, and that is actually higher than what the median is across the country.

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Jul 20, 2023

More housing needs to be built in order to lower prices.

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Jul 20, 2023

When 75% of Hoosiers are unable to afford the median price of a new home under President Biden's economy, we know there is a serious issue.

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Jul 20, 2023

Under the Biden Administration, Americans are less able to afford a home than practically any other time in our history.

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Jul 20, 2023

Under the Biden Administration, Americans are less able to afford a home than practically any other time in our history.

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Jul 20, 2023

Spending policies, I think, have exacerbated an already unaffordable housing market.

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Jul 20, 2023

A lot of times things we do here are well-intended, but you cannot do it by borrowing from future generations.

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Jul 20, 2023

I want to give a shout out to a company in Indiana, the Cook Medical Group, who does medical device manufacturing as its business, but it has taken on trying to make affordable housing something that they are going to try to make.

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Jul 20, 2023

Federal Government, I think too, can help generally on the main drivers of an economy that folks are wondering what do we have, by not spending and borrowing more, because you don't need a macroeconomics degree, that creates inflation.

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Jul 20, 2023

I think the solutions to all of these are probably left best to the laboratory of the states.

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Jul 20, 2023

I think that is the wrong way to accomplish maybe a goal that is noble to help those that need help affording a place to live, but not like that.

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Jul 20, 2023

Federal Government, I think too, can help generally on the main drivers of an economy that folks are wondering what do we have, by not spending and borrowing more, because you don't need a macroeconomics degree, that creates inflation.

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Jul 20, 2023

I mean, that just seems outrageously high as a median, and that is actually higher than what the median is across the country.

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Jul 20, 2023

Can you cite a couple of the key regulations that drive costs up? And generally, they are always well intended, but then can work at cross-purposes for the affordability factor.

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Jul 20, 2023

I want to give a shout out to a company in Indiana, the Cook Medical Group, who does medical device manufacturing as its business, but it has taken on trying to make affordable housing something that they are going to try to make.

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Jul 20, 2023

I challenge employers throughout the country to make sure to take that into consideration.

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Jul 20, 2023

When I do visit all 92 counties in our State, by far the issue I hear even above and beyond rural broadband, affordable housing, would be workforce.

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Jul 20, 2023

the cost of post-secondary education has gone--is pricing itself out of the market.

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Jul 20, 2023

they are going to make more money in many cases than most four-year degrees would produce.

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Jul 20, 2023

we need more of them to fill that high demand, very high pay niche.

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Jul 20, 2023

Federal bureaucrats should not step in the way. We must do more to address federal regulatory burdens.

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Jul 20, 2023

When 75% of Hoosiers are unable to afford the median price of a new home under President Biden's economy, we know there is a serious issue.

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Jul 20, 2023

More housing needs to be built in order to lower prices.

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