Trump’s Pick for HUD Secretary BACKED INTO CORNER by Elizabeth Warren!!! Brittany Page Jan 16, 2025
My letter to reps:
I don’t think mega-pastor Scott Turner is the right person to manage the housing crisis we’re undergoing, since he has publicly agreed with the clueless claim that housing assistance to the disabled and those experiencing misfortunes is akin to lifetime slavery of humans where husbands and wives and mothers and their children were ripped away from each other to be sold at literal auctions. This is obviously not someone who even thinks things through before they speak in public, or maybe ever.
Please feel free to copy or repurpose the contents of my letter for your own letters to reps.
ProPublica – Trump’s Pick to Lead Federal Housing Agency Has Opposed Efforts to Aid the Poor – As HUD secretary, Scott Turner would oversee billions in housing aid, but as a Texas state legislator he voted against protections for poor tenants and has called government assistance “one of the most destructive things for the family.” by Jesse Coburn and Andy Kroll Dec. 23, 2024, 6 a.m. EST Behind those votes lay a deep-seated skepticism about the value of government efforts to alleviate poverty, a skepticism that Turner has voiced again and again. He has called welfare “dangerous, harmful” and “one of the most destructive things for the family.” When one interviewer said receiving government assistance was keeping recipients in “bondage” of “a worse form to find oneself in than slavery,” Turner agreed. Such views would seemingly place Turner at odds with the core work of HUD, a sprawling federal agency that serves as a backstop against homelessness for millions of the nation’s poor, elderly and disabled.