Scott Turner HUD Senate Confirmation Hearing Online

Government Director of the White Home Alternative and Revitalization Council Scott Turner speaks as President Donald Trump and senior adviser Jared Kushner hear throughout a gathering within the Cupboard Room of the White Home on Might 18, 2020 in Washington, D.C. | Supply: Getty Photos / Getty

Eric Scott Turner, the primary and solely Black individual nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to serve within the upcoming administration, is scheduled to have his Senate affirmation listening to on Thursday to find out his health to be the Secretary of Housing and City Improvement (HUD).

Proceed studying to learn the way to look at a livestream of Turner’s affirmation on-line.

Turner, the previous Government Director of the White Home Alternative and Revitalization Council throughout Trump’s first presidency, comes into the affirmation amid a lot scrutiny of his {qualifications} to run HUD.

As an example, the previous NFL participant and former Texas State Consultant is accused in a web-based petition towards his nomination of getting “a historical past of coverage positions that betray the identified reality that housing is the answer to homelessness.”

Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren posted on X, previously Twitter, that she has deliberate a listing of 75 inquiries to ask Turner “to unravel his document and views.”

A damning ProPublica report about Turner after Trump nominated him revealed that he “as a Texas state legislator he voted towards protections for poor tenants and has known as authorities help ‘some of the harmful issues for the household.’”

In Turner’s ready remarks that he’s anticipated to learn earlier than the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and City Affairs on Thursday, he calls the rise in nationwide homelessness “a nationwide embarrassment and one thing that can’t proceed.”

Learn Turner’s ready remarks by clicking right here.

If confirmed, Turner would succeed Adrianne Todman, the Deputy HUD Secretary who was named appearing HUD Secretary when then-HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, the previous longtime Congresswoman from Ohio, unexpectedly resigned in March.

The HUD company has had 5 Black secretaries — probably the most of any cabinet-level federal company — together with Ben Carson, who served in Trump’s first administration.

Turner’s affirmation listening to is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. ET.

In the event you can’t be in entrance of a tv to look at the affirmation listening to, you possibly can go browsing to the web and look at it through a livestream supplied by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and City Affairs.

Click on right here to view the livestream of Turner’s Senate affirmation listening to.