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Ben Carson: ‘Race is being manipulated’ to ‘divide’ Americans and ‘create chaos’
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson has warned that the African American race—and also the white race—"is being manipulated" to "divide" Americans and “create chaos.” Speaking at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, on Thursday, Sept. 24, Carson lamented that even though the country is no longer ...
Pelosi calls President Trump’s move to revoke Obama-era housing rule a ‘betrayal of our nation’s founding values’
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 the day that it is revoking the Obama administration's 2015 ...
Ben Carson: Black Lives Matter’s Marxist ideology ‘antithetical to the American model and to patriotism in this country’
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 agree that they do," Carson told Fox News anchor Martha ...
Racist cops need to be removed from the system, reform is necessary says Ben Carson
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 was asked by host Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday," ...
Limiting food stamp eligibility will move more recipients from ‘welfare to work’ says Perdue
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 having to maintain steady employment in order to receive Supplemental ...
Ben Carson tells Maxine Waters ‘basic manners elude you,’after she refused to respond to his letter
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 presenter Joy-Ann Reid discussed a "harsh letter" the congresswoman recently ...
Ben Carson visits Baltimore and compares it to a ‘patient who has cancer’
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 and stands by the president’s remarks. "You know, it's sort of ...
Ben Carson defends the president on his remarks about “rat-infested” Baltimore
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 live there." Carson appeared on Fox News on Monday, July 29, ...
Ben Carson says Trump ‘not a racist’
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, and he’s not a racist," Carson said in a Wednesday ...
Carson hounded by open borders liberals for putting Americans first
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 as “despicable” and “damaging.” Those are the hysterical words used by ...
Carson confronts Dems about a bill to ban illegal immigrants from public housing
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 the House Financial Services Committee criticized President Trump's residential secretary ...
Carson’s office purchases broke law, government auditors say
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 Accountability Office says the agency failed to notify Congress before ...
Deal announced to fix NYC public housing under monitor’s eye
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 with lousy living conditions, lead paint and lack of heat. The ...
Interior Dept. contradicts Ben Carson on new watchdog hiring
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 a statement that an email sent by HUD Secretary Ben ...
Political appointee tapped to lead Interior watchdog
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 secretary Suzanne Israel Tufts will take over as acting inspector ...
Ben Carson calls Kavanaugh’s opponents ‘desperate’
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 control the courts for another generation," Carson added. "So what ...

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