The Trump administration is facing withering attacks from conservative circles after floating a 50-year mortgage proposal branded as a bid to expand housing affordability. 

Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, President Donald Trump’s housing chief, initially announced the idea on Saturday. In an update Sunday, Pulte framed the proposal as a “potential weapon in a WIDE arsenal of solutions that we are developing right now” to safeguard “the American Dream for YOUNG PEOPLE.”