Govt Director of the White Home Alternative and Revitalization Council Scott Turner speaks as President Donald Trump and senior adviser Jared Kushner hear throughout a gathering within the Cupboard Room of the White Home on Could 18, 2020 in Washington, D.C. | Supply: Getty Pictures / Getty
Eric Scott Turner, the primary and solely Black particular person nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to serve within the upcoming administration, is scheduled to have his Senate affirmation listening to on Thursday to find out his health to be the Secretary of Housing and City Growth (HUD).
Proceed studying to learn the way to observe a livestream of Turner’s affirmation on-line.
Turner, the previous Govt Director of the White Home Alternative and Revitalization Council throughout Trump’s first presidency, comes into the affirmation amid a lot scrutiny of his {qualifications} to run HUD.
As an illustration, the previous NFL participant and former Texas State Consultant is accused in a web based petition towards his nomination of getting “a historical past of coverage positions that betray the recognized fact that housing is the answer to homelessness.”
Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren posted on X, previously Twitter, that she has deliberate an inventory of 75 inquiries to ask Turner “to unravel his file and views.”
A damning ProPublica report about Turner after Trump nominated him revealed that he “as a Texas state legislator he voted towards protections for poor tenants and has known as authorities help ‘one of the vital harmful issues for the household.’”
In Turner’s ready remarks that he’s anticipated to learn earlier than the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and City Affairs on Thursday, he calls the rise in nationwide homelessness “a nationwide embarrassment and one thing that can’t proceed.”
Learn Turner’s ready remarks by clicking right here.
If confirmed, Turner would succeed Adrianne Todman, the Deputy HUD Secretary who was named appearing HUD Secretary when then-HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, the previous longtime Congresswoman from Ohio, unexpectedly resigned in March.
The HUD company has had 5 Black secretaries — probably the most of any cabinet-level federal company — together with Ben Carson, who served in Trump’s first administration.
Turner’s affirmation listening to is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. ET.
If you happen to can’t be in entrance of a tv to observe the affirmation listening to, you may go online to the web and examine it by way of a livestream supplied by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and City Affairs.
Click on right here to view the livestream of Turner’s Senate affirmation listening to.
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