“This building wouldn't have come to fruition without the HOME fund,”
The
Trump's push for a leaner HUD has
Carson didn't address the pros and cons of HOME or other funding, but cautioned against reading too much into reports on the president's proposed budget.
“If you look at various budget stories, it says we're going to eliminate HOME, we're going to eliminate CDBG, this, that and the other,” Carson said, naming two HUD programs listed as being eliminated in Trump's official budget proposal.
“What you need to concentrate on is: The parts of these programs that are functioning well — and that are maintaining people — are going to be preserved,” Carson said during a press conference at
The former brain surgeon and one-time presidential candidate hopscotched through
“We checked all the elevators,”
Opened in 2009, the 12-story
Book cited the proposed cuts in a letter last week to members of
While the proposed Trump cuts to HUD have caused alarm in
“The president doesn't do the legislating.
The locale made sense:
But the photo op detoured a bit from normal practice when Carson and McMahon both opted to skip
Carson press secretary
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