Support legislation to repeal Green New Deal housing mandates that increase home prices.

Cindy Hyde-Smith · Mississippi · Republican

policy impact 0.66 specificity 0.88 extraction confidence 94%

Occurrences

HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS BILL TO REPEAL GREEN NEW DEAL MANDATES THAT ADD TO HOME PRICES

Hyde-Smith cosponsored legislation to eliminate Biden-era housing mandates she said make new homes less affordable.

News Releases | Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith
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Evidence

S.3178 was introduced by Sen. Barrasso for himself and other senators including Mrs. Hyde-Smith. The bill requires HUD and USDA to withdraw the final determination titled Adoption of Energy Efficiency Standards for New Construction of HUD- and USDA-Financed Housing, bars implementation or enforcement of that determination or substantially similar determinations, and reverts covered programs to prior energy-efficiency standards.

Hyde-Smith took concrete legislative action by joining S.3178 at introduction. The bill directly targets repeal/withdrawal and non-enforcement of the HUD/USDA housing energy standards at issue.

delivered same_term A for effort

Text - S.3178 - 119th Congress (2025-2026)
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Congress.gov lists S.3178 as a bill to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of Agriculture to withdraw a final determination relating to energy efficiency standards for housing. Latest action: read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on November 18, 2025. The tracker status is Introduced.

As of the refresh, the relevant Senate bill remains introduced/referred, with no enacted repeal shown. That does not defeat a promise framed as supporting legislation, but it shows the underlying policy repeal has not become law through this bill.

delivered same_term A for effort

S.3178 - 119th Congress (2025-2026)
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HUD and USDA announced a final determination adopting the 2021 IECC and ASHRAE 90.1-2019 for covered new construction of HUD- and USDA-financed housing, with an effective date of May 28, 2024 and compliance dates varying by program type.

This Federal Register notice is the official housing energy-standard action that S.3178 seeks to withdraw and bar from implementation/enforcement.

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Final Determination: Adoption of Energy Efficiency Standards for New Construction of HUD- and USDA-Financed Housing
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The Federal Register notice estimates the average per-unit incremental cost for adopting the 2021 IECC over the HUD/USDA 2009 IECC baseline at $7,229 for single-family housing, and describes that as a 2.2 percent increase in the median cost of a new FHA-insured home in 2023.

The official rulemaking record supports the claim’s premise that the targeted standards add upfront construction/home costs, even though the agencies concluded energy savings offset costs over time.

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Final Determination: Adoption of Energy Efficiency Standards for New Construction of HUD- and USDA-Financed Housing
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Assessments

delivered same_term A for effort

The promise was framed as supporting legislation, not securing enactment of a repeal. Hyde-Smith materially fulfilled that by joining S.3178 at introduction in the 119th Congress, a bill aimed at requiring HUD and USDA to withdraw and bar enforcement of the targeted housing energy-efficiency standards. The bill had not become law in the evidence provided, but that does not prevent fulfillment of a support-legislation promise. Effort credit is warranted because this was concrete legislative action on the promised policy.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 92%