Rep. Adam Smith

King County could lose $26 million in federal homelessness funding because of callous Housing and Urban Development cuts from the Trump administration. This will significantly decrease affordable housing access and services for those who need it most. The people of Washington state need these funds to get people off the streets and in secure housing facilities.

New HUD rules put $26M of King County’s homelessness funding at risk The reason homelessness has increased, advocates say, is not because of Housing First but because it has not been scaled to the level of need in Seattle.

I voted NO on H.R. 7892. Ghost student fraud is real and needs to stop. But the Education Department already built a system to catch it in April. This bill just locks that untested system into law — without any guardrails. That's not how you do this.

Make no mistake: when ED's fraud detection system flags a student without a traditional ID, without reliable internet, or experiencing homelessness — and it will — that student has nowhere to go. They're stuck in bureaucratic limbo. This bill doesn't protect anyone. It traps the most vulnerable.

This isn't about fraud prevention. It's about giving the Trump Administration another tool to control education and withhold aid. I need solutions that actually work. Not rushing to legislate what regulators are already doing. Practical beats perfect.