White House senior adviser Hassett says affordability crisis is a myth

This is a messaging story more than an economic one: a senior White House adviser is disputing the framing of a debate rather than the underlying data, and doing so on a friendly outlet. The significance lies in what it signals about how the administration intends to contest affordability as a political and economic talking point, which matters for how cost-of-living concerns get translated into policy pressure. Whether this framing holds as the affordability debate continues is the open question worth watching.