As Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Scott Turner may soon oversee the nation’s efforts to build affordable apartments, protect poor tenants and aid the homeless. As a lawmaker in the Texas House of Representatives, Turner voted against those very initiatives.
Turner supported a bill ensuring landlords could refuse apartments to applicants because they received federal housing assistance. He opposed a bill to expand affordable rental housing. He voted against funding public-private partnerships to support the homeless and against two bills that called merely to study homelessness among young people and veterans.
Behind those votes lay a deep-seated skepticism about the value of government efforts to alleviate poverty, a skepticism that Turner has voiced again and again. He has called welfare “dangerous, harmful” and “one of the most destructive things for the family.” When one interviewer said receiving government assistance was keeping recipients in “bondage” of “a worse […]
Let’s be real—-most of Trump’s appointees share antithetical feelings about the agencies they are charged to run. Against vaccines, wanting to prevent the use of fluoride in water, against housing for those who receive government funds, wanting to remove many restrictions on the environment that the EPA has applied, wanting an enemies list to indict innocent people who just have a different point of view, siding with our enemies and yet having the power of all our intelligence, never running a huge corporation and with two agencies, mishandled funds. This is only a tiny aspect of his appointees and what is there is that if these people are confirmed, we are in for the worst administration for the people of America ever!!! This is no exaggeration and these people do not have Americans’ needs or concerns in their attempts to run these agencies. It almost seems as though Trump’s plan is to destroy this country in every possible way, making life miserable for everyone—-except them!!!! Surrounding himself with 16 ultra-rich billionaires clearly makes one think that it is for their prosperity and Trump’s that will be in the forefront—-not the average American. And with a corrupt conservative majority on the Supreme Court, it is less likely that Trump and his appointees will have anyone who will stop their evil plans. Americans need to be vigilant and constantly watching what this administration has in store and rant and rave and do everything to prevent their accomplishing their nefarious goals. We have a disastrous 4 years ahead and the only hope is that Americans realize this and in TWO YEARS vote Democrats to take over the House and Senate to save out country. That’s our only hope at this time.