Mike Lee takes aim at Obama's housing rule

Sen. Mike Lee is hoping this week to upend President Obama’s push to ensure diversity in communities around the country, by blocking any federal spending for that plan.

Lee is the sponsor of an amendment to the 2017 transportation and housing spending bill that would prevent any federal spending on Obama’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule. That rule would tie federal community grants to the demographic makeup of communities around the country in an effort to make them more attractive to “families with different income and ethnic profiles.”