There’s a good article over at Politico, but only read it if your blood pressure is within normal range (my bolding):
www.politico.com/…
… Less than two months into the job, Carson still holds forth on God and neurosurgery, but his views on housing policy remain largely a mystery. While he's making good on a promised listening tour to learn about the $48 billion agency he now leads, he's done little public speaking about the urgent issue at hand — a lack of affordable housing.
That's one reason why early excitement over his nomination has given way to bewilderment and now frustration. Every policy job at the agency remains vacant, and advocates who thought Carson’s celebrity would raise awareness of affordable housing have been disappointed. President Donald Trump doused any remaining hope when he said he would slash HUD funding by 13.2 percent.
Carson told POLITICO that policy proposals are in the works, but in public appearances the one-time presidential candidate is sticking to his stump-speech staples. He prescribes “godly principles” as a cure for the country’s political division and praises housing advocates for “putting God’s love into action.”…
However, the right wing World News Politics reads the same article and thinks Carson is doing something AMAZING:
www.worldnewspolitics.com/…
...Ben Carson just announced a huge shift in priorities for HUD. One that may fix the welfare system in America once and for all.
According to Politico, high on Carson’s list of priorities is bringing new life to a program known as Section 3, which creates local jobs when agency money is spent on a project.
The Politico sentence they’re referring to goes like this:
As he learns his way around the HUD bureaucracy, Carson expects to start announcing policy plans in the next 90 days. High on his list of priorities is bringing new life to a program known as Section 3, which creates local jobs when agency money is spent on a project.
Doesn’t sound like any kind of concrete plan to me…but right wingers are desperate for progress, I guess. Other than that, the last Carson article (except for the elevator fiasco) Google comes up with is from Jan 12th… not a blazing start to his term of office… I wanted to cover this because while the Orange Menace is causing havoc, we don’t want to forget his lesser minions...