Published: Monday, May 17, 2021
A child walking down stairs with a wall of peeling lead-based paint. Photo credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Children who have high levels of lead in their blood walk past a peeling lead paint wall in their apartment in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
President Biden s proposal to get the lead out of the nation s pipes has some experts wondering: What about the paint?
Banned decades ago for its neurotoxic effects, lead can inhibit brain development in children and cause behavioral issues. Overall, lead exposure to kids has been estimated to cost society $50 billion in lost wages annually. But lead persists in pipes and paint across the country, particularly in older and low-income housing stock whose residents can t afford to update their homes.
In 2019, the Trump administration proposed tightening regulations to prevent undocumented immigrants from accessing federally subsidized housing. Then-HUD Secretary Ben Carson said the federal government needed to “make certain our scarce public resources help those who are legally entitled to it.”
“Fairness requires that we devote ourselves to legal residents who have been waiting, some for many years, for access to affordable housing,” Mr. Carson said at the time.
Ms. Fudge announced that HUD will use money from the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package signed into law in February to provide 70,000 emergency housing vouchers nationwide to about 750 local housing authorities. She said it will help about 130,000 people find or keep safe, quality housing.
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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge violated the Hatch Act in March with comments she made at a White House press briefing, the Office of Special Counsel found.
In a letter to Caitlin Sutherland, the executive director for Americans for Public Trust, the office s Hatch Act Unit chief, Ana Galindo-Marrone, confirmed the determination and said a warning had been issued to Fudge. The letter was in response to a complaint filed by the organization regarding the official s remarks. OSC reviewed a transcript of the event and learned that Secretary Fudge appeared in her official capacity at the briefing and answered press questions about HUD-related topics, she said, adding, At the end of her appearance, Secretary Fudge was asked to opine on the election to fill her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, and she declined to respond. Then Secretary Fudge was asked to discuss the 2022 Ohio election for U.S. Senate.
Federal investigators say HUD Sec. Marcia Fudge violated the Hatch Act Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON An independent federal investigative agency found Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge violated the Hatch Act earlier this year for weighing in on Ohio s 2022 Senate race, Politico reported Thursday.
During a March 18 White House press briefing, Fudge deflected a question on who should succeed her in the open congressional seat in Ohio s 11th District. But she offered her opinion on possible candidates to replace retiring Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio. I have two friends that are thinking about it, Fudge said, according to a March report in The Washington Post. “Tim Ryan of course is thinking about. I understand Nan Whaley is thinking about it. I mean, I think we’re going to put a good person in that race no matter who we choose, but they’re both friends. I think we have a good shot at it. I know people have w