Newt Gingrich: HUD Chief Ben Carson protects poor Americans and enforces the law – Why is that a pro

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Newt Gingrich: HUD Chief Ben Carson protects poor Americans and enforces the law – Why is that a problem?

Newt Gingrich: HUD Chief Ben Carson protects poor Americans and enforces the law – Why is that a problem? | Fox News

In a bold move, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is both helping poor Americans and enforcing the law.


Some in Congress may consider enforcing the law and prioritizing help for poor Americans (including people who immigrated to the U.S. legally) over help for people in the country illegally controversial or unacceptable. The solution for their position is for Congress to change the law. Until then, it is pretty hard to complain that a cabinet officer is enforcing the law which Congress wrote.


Helping poor American families is a core mission of the HUD. One lifeline HUD extends to vulnerable families is housing assistance.

Yet, 75 percent of Americans eligible for housing assistance – many of whom are children, seniors, or persons living with a disability – are prevented from receiving the financial aid to which they are legally entitled.


In fact, millions of qualified American families are stuck on waiting lists that have unending queues – the average of which stretch on for years.

Despite these waiting lists for American citizens, there are an estimated 32,000 households occupied by people in the country illegally, who have no right to be getting taxpayer assistance. This is 32,000 households that could be occupied by American citizens who qualify for the assistance but cannot get it.

It's high time this injustice it brought under control.

 

[Greenbeard]

Re: Newt Gingrich: HUD Chief Ben Carson protects poor Americans and enforces the law – Why is that

Millions of Americans on waiting lists for housing assistance does sound like a major injustice.

Trump budget would slash billions from HUD, grant programs

President Donald Trump called for severe cuts for domestic programs, including housing for lower-income families, in his record $4.75 trillion proposed budget for 2020.

If the budget is approved by Congress, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s budget would be reduced by $8.7 billion (16.4%) next year. The department’s total gross discretionary funding would go down to $44.1 billion in 2020 from this year’s $52.8 billion. HUD programs help low- to moderate-income households to buy homes and afford rental housing.

"The proposal would reduce housing benefits for the lowest-income people by slashing federal investments in affordable homes, increasing rents, and imposing harmful work requirements on America’s struggling families," said Diane Yentel, head of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. "If enacted, it could leave even more low-income people without stable homes, undermining family stability, increasing evictions, and, in worst cases, leading to more homelessness."

 

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Re: Newt Gingrich: HUD Chief Ben Carson protects poor Americans and enforces the law – Why is that

Newt Gingrich is a moron and a liar.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Re: Newt Gingrich: HUD Chief Ben Carson protects poor Americans and enforces the law – Why is that

I forget, is he still in office? Oh wait, he hasn't been in office in twenty years, and we're still supposed to care what he thinks?

 

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Re: Newt Gingrich: HUD Chief Ben Carson protects poor Americans and enforces the law – Why is that

I forget, is he still in office? Oh wait, he hasn't been in office in twenty years, and we're still supposed to care what he thinks?

Gingrich is Trump lite. He believes that everyone should care about what he thinks.

 

[Napoleon]

Re: Newt Gingrich: HUD Chief Ben Carson protects poor Americans and enforces the law – Why is that

Why is it a problem? Because evicting immigrants from public housing and replacing them with American citizens is not at all what Congress intended and it’s a violation of basic human decency. Quite reminiscent of Nazi Germany.