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babylonsister

(170,963 posts)
Tue May 21, 2019, 07:47 PM May 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Convinced Ben Carson That HUD's Drug Policies Should Be Changed

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ben-carson-hud-evictions/


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Convinced Ben Carson That HUD’s Drug Policies Should Be Changed
Carson seems to agree that public housing tenants shouldn’t be automatically evicted if their guests break the law.
Nathalie Baptiste


Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday accomplished a rare feat for a Democrat—she appeared to convince a Trump administration official that federal policy should be changed. Specifically the firebrand congresswoman from New York got Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to agree that his department’s drug and crime policies should be reformed.


During a House Financial Services Committee hearing, Ocasio-Cortez used her time to ask Carson about HUD’s stringent crime policies that could lead to public housing tenants being evicted.

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“Would you support being able to move some of these policies over to a more holistic review?” she asked. “You yourself asked for a case-by-case consideration. Should that case-by-case consideration be codified in federal law instead of having blanket, one-strike or no-fault policies?”


Carson’s answer suggested he would indeed by open to supporting such a change. “I’m always in favor of more flexibility,” he said.

“I’m happy to hear that,” Ocasio-Cortez said. Moments later, she noted she was introducing housing legislation that would include those reforms.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Convinced Ben Carson That HUD's Drug Policies Should Be Changed (Original Post) babylonsister May 2019 OP
"Convinced" is a stretch. TwilightZone May 2019 #1

TwilightZone

(25,342 posts)
1. "Convinced" is a stretch.
Tue May 21, 2019, 07:55 PM
May 2019

Sounds like he was being vaguely agreeable to move the conversation along.

I'll believe it when he actually supports the legislation she's introducing.

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