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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,170 posts)
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 03:00 PM Sep 2018

Report: A third of Ben Carson's appointees have no housing experience

A third of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson’s appointees at the highest levels of the department have no experience with housing policy, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

Twenty-four of the 70 people hired to the top positions at HUD under Carson apparently have no housing policy experience, according to the Post's analysis of their resumes and LinkedIn profiles.

However, 16 of them appear to have worked on Carson’s or President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaigns, or maintain close personal connections to their families, the Post reported.

HUD spokesman Raffi Williams in a statement to the Post wrote that hiring people with "varying experiences to government is not unusual" and pointed out the majority of the top appointees do have housing experience.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/407638-report-a-third-of-ben-carsons-appointees-have-no-housing-experience

So? Neither does Ben Carson. This is only standard operating procedure in the Trump kakistocracy.

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Report: A third of Ben Carson's appointees have no housing experience (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2018 OP
I don't believe that the administraion's aim is to implement housing policy as we would define it eleny Sep 2018 #1
What a farce! Is anyone in the ShitHole Administration qualified or honest? n/t fleur-de-lisa Sep 2018 #2
Neither does Carson, so we... 3catwoman3 Sep 2018 #3

eleny

(46,166 posts)
1. I don't believe that the administraion's aim is to implement housing policy as we would define it
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 03:02 PM
Sep 2018

Seems to me that they only want people who would be good at slash and burn.

3catwoman3

(24,032 posts)
3. Neither does Carson, so we...
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 03:38 PM
Sep 2018

...shouldn’t be surprised.

None of Trump’s appointees are qualified for the positions to which they were appointed. Just the opposite. He picked them for their destructive talents.

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