Ben Carson

Politics 07/24/20, 04:07

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday, July 23, slammed President Donald Trump's decision to end the Obama-era housing regulation, calling it “a betrayal of our nation’s founding values of equality and opportunity for all.” The White House announced earlier in ...

U.S. 07/02/20, 04:41

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Ben Carson on Wednesday, July 1, criticized Black Lives Matter as the movement gained momentum following the death of George Floyd, calling it a "Marxist–driven organization." “Do black lives matter? I think everybody would ...

U.S. 06/15/20, 04:33

Dr. Ben Carson, secretary of Housing and Urban Development said “respect” is something he believes people need to have with those in authority, such as police officers. However, said Carson, we need to sift out racist cops from the force. Carson ...

Trending 12/06/19, 02:43

Proposed restrictions to a federal aid program will encourage more Americans to work instead of relying on handouts, a key presidential adviser said on Dec. 4. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue (R) plans to limit states from exempting work eligible adults from ...

D.C. 11/25/19, 01:09

A congresswoman who has been in politics for more than 20 years became visibly uncomfortable during a nationally televised interview about her alleged lack of manners on Nov. 24. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) appeared to squirm in her chair after MSNBC ...

U.S. 07/31/19, 18:45

Housing Secretary Ben Carson, held a press conference on Wednesday, July 31, in Baltimore, in an attempt to defuse the situation after President Trump called the city a “disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess.” Carson is only too aware of the problems ...

U.S. 07/31/19, 04:43

The Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has backed up President Trump’s summary of Baltimore, which he described in his tweets over the weekend as a "disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess," adding that "no human being would want to ...

Politics 07/20/19, 07:30

While many Democrats are accusing President Donald Trump of "racism" because of a controversial tweet, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is countering the narrative by touting the president’s policies. “I have an advantage of knowing the president very well, ...

Opinion 05/23/19, 03:14

We no longer live in a constitutional republic. We live in an idiocracy. Only in modern-day America, under the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, is the basic proposition that federally subsidized public housing should benefit American citizens and legal residents slammed ...

Politics 05/21/19, 20:18

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson encountered Democrats ' severe criticism on Tuesday as he raised concerns at a Capitol Hill meeting about a suggested rule shift that would strip illegal immigrants of government residential help. Democratic representatives of ...

Politics 05/17/19, 15:18

Government auditors say Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson violated the law when his department spent more than $40,000 to purchase a dining set and a dishwasher for his office's executive dining room. In a report released Thursday, the Government ...

U.S. 01/31/19, 16:51

New York City and U.S. housing officials announced a deal Thursday that will keep the city's massive public housing system out of federal receivership, but require the city to spend $2.2 billion over the next few years fixing chronic problems ...

U.S. 10/18/18, 19:20

Contradicting a claim by a Cabinet secretary, the Interior Department said Thursday that a political appointee at the Department of Housing and Urban Development will not be reassigned to lead an internal watchdog agency at Interior.Spokeswoman Heather Swift said in ...

Politics 10/17/18, 11:58

The Trump administration is moving to reassign a political appointee at the Department of Housing and Urban Development to lead an internal watchdog agency at the Interior Department.An email sent by HUD Secretary Ben Carson to staff says assistant HUD ...

U.S. 09/21/18, 22:45

Housing Secretary Ben Carson is attributing the controversy over Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination to people who want to "fundamentally change this country."Carson said Friday that Kavanaugh's opponents have become "desperate.""And now they don't see themselves as being able to ...