Senate confirms Trump's Hud selection of former NFL players Scott Turner

The Senate agreed on Wednesday 55: 44 for the nomination of Scott Turner, a former professional football player, as a secretary of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development.

Turner takes over an agency in the amount of around 68 billion US dollars that does rental support, builds and preserves affordable living space, concerns homelessness and forces the law on fair housing, prohibiting discrimination against living space. The department supports 4.3 million families with low income from public housing, rent subsidy and voucher programs.

In Turner’s hearing in front of the committee for banking, housing and urban areas last month, he said that he wanted to repair broken political areas. Ween Americans before government support and priority more houses.

“As a country, we don’t build enough living space,” said Turner in his opening declaration. “We need millions of more houses of all kinds, single -family houses, apartments, condominiums, duplexes, accommodation accommodation, as they call it, so that individuals and families can have a roof over their heads and a place to the house at home.”

He said it was his goal to “help people get out of the government’s support, endure themselves and realize the American dream”.

According to party borders on January 23, the committee voted to drive his nomination forward, and some Democrats said they had only opposed his nomination because they had not yet received the results of his background check.

Dr. Ben Carson, a former GOP presidential candidate, led Hud in Trump’s first term.

Who is Scott Turner?

After graduating from the University of Illinois, Turner was confiscated by the Washington Redskins in 1995 and spent nine years in the NFL for Denver Broncos and San Diego Chargers. After an unsuccessful offer for a Californian congress seat before he won AA 2013 State House Race in Texas, where he was born and grew up.

From 2019 to 2021, Turner also worked as an executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council during the first Trump administration.

The Council was commissioned to coordinate with federal authorities in order to attract investments for so -called “opportunities” that had authorized economically depressive areas for the federal incentives. According to Trump, Turner’s Leadership Opportunity zones received over 50 billion US dollars in private investments.

(Tagstotranslate) Access: Free

Senate confirms Trump’s Hud selection of former NFL players Scott Turner

ByAmelia Journalton

By Amelia Journalton

Related Post

Interior Minister Yvette Cooper takes into account the call from Idris Elba, kitchen knife with a point in front of the report on the terrorist threat of the Southport killer Axel Rudakubana

Braves are part of the pack that follows the Dodgers with great expenses

Joao Felix Transfer: Chelsea Forward excludes the AC Milan until the end of the season

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You missed

Interior Minister Yvette Cooper takes into account the call from Idris Elba, kitchen knife with a point in front of the report on the terrorist threat of the Southport killer Axel Rudakubana

Braves are part of the pack that follows the Dodgers with great expenses

Joao Felix Transfer: Chelsea Forward excludes the AC Milan until the end of the season

Former Upennes Women’s swimmers Sue Ivy League Institutions and NCAA claim to drive the pro-trans ideology