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Mulvaney: No One Will Get ‘Kicked Out Of Their Houses’ Due To HUD Funding Cut

Budget Director-designate Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Budget Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said Thursday that “nobody is going to get kicked out of their houses” as a result of big cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development in President Trump’s proposed budget.

The proposed budget slashes billions of dollars from HUD, including $2 billion from public housing, and eliminates most federal community development grants. Asked during the daily press briefing if he believes the proposed budget keeps Trump’s campaign promise that urban black voters have nothing to lose, Mulvaney set a rather low bar for success.

“Nobody is going to get kicked out of their houses,” he said. “What we did when we looked at the HUD budget was try to figure out a way to spend money better. What we saw, and I talked to Dr. Carson about this just today, what we saw when we went through the analysis of the HUD budget is a lot of money got spent on government housing, building it. It’s actually infrastructure.”

Mulvaney said that Carson told him he wanted to shift that money out of HUD, which Mulvaney described as “not very well run,” and into a larger program.

“These do not mean the President is changing his commitment to infrastructure. Far from it,” he said. “For years and years we have built infrastructure like this and it doesn’t work very well. So what we’re doing now is taking it out of the discretionary budget and move it into the larger infrastructure.”

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  1. Avatar for bkmn bkmn says:

    He’s a Republican and his lips are moving, so don’t trust a thing he says.

  2. They’re just trying to give middle and lower class folks every opportunity to become homeless and die in the streets.

    Give Ben a break. HUD is just his hobby for Christ’s sake.

  3. Well at least this time they are lying TO YOUR FACE while they implode the economy. Make sure your houses are paid off and the money’s under the mattress!

  4. That “bigger program” Uncle Ben’s Cracked Rice wants to move money into will probably build pyramids for urban grain storage.

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