On March 10th, the U.S. Senate voted 66-34 to confirm President Joe Biden’s nomination of Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-Ohio) as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), according to the Washington Post.
Fudge, a congressional representative since 2008, won bipartisan approval to take over the leadership of HUD from Ben Carson, who undermined fair housing enforcement and other civil rights protections during the Trump administration. Fudge is the second Black woman to lead the agency (Patricia Roberts Harris, appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, was the first).
“The past year has reminded us just how important it is to have a safe and stable place to call home. But, right now — for millions of Americans — that sense of security and peace of mind is out of reach,” Fudge said in a video statement released after she was sworn in Wednesday evening.
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