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Trump Housing Official Invokes Family Legacy, to Some Relatives’ Dismay
Bill Pulte has called out prominent Democrats for issues with their mortgage documents. But he has a history of carefully choosing facts about his family and businesses to enhance his reputation.
By Matthew Goldstein, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Kailyn Rhone
Nov. 14, 2025

When Bill Pulte appeared before the Senate committee considering his nomination to be one of the nation’s top housing regulators, he presented himself as the anointed representative of his family’s home-building empire.

Mr. Pulte recounted visiting job sites with his grandfather William J. Pulte, who founded PulteGroup, the nation’s third-largest residential builder. He expressed gratitude to senators from Georgia, Nevada, Minnesota and Arizona on behalf of his family.

“You know, my family’s legacy company is based in Georgia,” he told Senator Raphael Warnock, a Georgia Democrat, at the hearing in late February. “Atlanta has been very good to our family.”

But Mr. Pulte, 37, no longer has any official connection to PulteGroup, which has built 800,000 homes across the country since the 1950s. He was pushed off the company’s board in 2020 after one term as a director. And his family’s $500 million charitable foundation, run by an aunt and his father, issued a statement two years ago saying that “Bill Pulte does not represent, nor is he a spokesperson for, all members of the Pulte family, in any capacity.”

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