however, over the last decade, the hud inspector general found that thousands of hud contractors lacked these whistleblower protections because the agency failed to adequately update past contracts to include whistleblowers and whistleblower protections. last august, following up on my responsibility to investigate, i requested answers and records about these findings but housing and urban development, under the biden administration, failed to fully respond and provide responsive records. i fully expect mr. turner, as the new secretary, to respond to all the congressional inquiries in a timely and responsible manner. i look forward to working with this new secretary to support long-term housing and revitalization policies to keep our communities, our states, and our nation strong. i yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. and so we have bill we have present today and donald trump wants to produce more energy but president from being able to crush our energy industry. hopefully we see a strong vote there. finally as a nati

>> and we'll have another conversation. >> it's scheduled for next week with hud. okay so it's start to your told so so we'll have we'll have updates on the two year tool and any conversations in relationship to hud at our next commission meeting. >> great. >> thank you. great. >> on the investment update slide and menu of fast forward over here everything is remarkably straightforward again the three criterias as we look at our investments capital preservation, liquidity sorry have to look for and return on investment as the third objective right? we have reached out to different agencies. we have reached out to the office of treasurer. we've also reached out to the the airport just to take get a sense of what their investments look like. you know, we have moved our shares from wish from v shares to z shares and i think the the only difference really is we get a higher rate of return going over to the z shares and we get a lower expense ratio. of course we had to pass a threshold as to how much asset under management we had once we were able to pass that threshold

the hud workforce the reports of our committee said hud is at the bottom when it comes to employees returning to work a bit on many teams in my career i believe we need to bring hud step back to work, back to the office to do the job and empower them to serve the american people. in this moment we are not just fixing what is broken. but about continuing and expanding the policies from the first trump administration. i'm talking about policies that work for the american people i was fortunate enough to lead the opportunity zone initiative. i'm so grateful for your leadership on that. i saw firsthand the impact of this initiative has a gave americans living in underserved communities an opportunity, a foundation to start businesses. to live in better homes. to be self-sustaining. to be self-confident and to unleash that promise and potential the lord has given each of us in our country. when i played in the nfl we had film after every game. you could tell your coach one thing on the sidelines but when you turned on the film and told the story. it was not about your chatter, it wasn't about the

we're going to go back to an interview we did with former hud secretary julian castro, who is now theno community foundation, on what we do now going forward. we'll see you here n next week damian: with the--julian castro, who's former hud secretary and now the current ceo of the latino community foundation. mr. secretary, welcome to the show. julian castro: thank you, damian, for having me. damian: thank you. welcome to the bay area as well. i know you're spending your time in various parts of the country, but welcome to bay area. let me ask you, sir, since we have you and it's very timely, what impact will the election results have, do you think, in not only latino communities across california but across the country? julian: well, the election is going to have a wide ranging impact on the latino community. let's just start with what donald trump has made clear. he wants mass deportation. that would mean up to 11 million people, many of them latinos and latinas, who would be subject to deportation. this would be terrible for the community. it would rip apart families. it would decim

scott turner, hud secretary holding up the hud secretary? for attorney general for attorney general of the united states. federal law and order, criminal investigations and prosecutions. massive responsibility to say this is a former chief of staff there and they are holding her up. they are holding her up. what else? they got into the floor, democrats won't agree to an up or down vote now they have to gather hours and hours of this cloture process. we don't need to get into the weeds and what it is but to get around a potential filibuster in the chris wright, the energy secretary. doug collins the va secretary to be. so, they have to deal with that and get a procedural vote and overcome with that? now if final confirmation votes and finally occurred for rubio, ratcliffe, ratcliff had to get to the process the filibuster process. hegseth they tried to knock out, kristi noem, scott bissett had to go to the same process. sean duffy, he had to go to the same process. lee zeldin didn't he had to go to this same process. and doug burgum had to go

finely the department was forced by hud to hire an ad a consultant. he got me an accomodation to get repairs because of the city's refusal to make it ad a compliant. this is an on going problem. everyone of their accommodations requests are being ignored. october 7 we got approved ramonea and i got it. she was -- a witness to the retelliation for being a witness to the hud case. my winds shield on one side all my wiring is out >> ma'am. we can take the copy of that if you like and mitt it in the record for you. is that a copy we can keep or do we need to make a copy of if t you have a sentence sure sorry. we are seth the time are for 2 minutes. i will say then that thank you for having me and we do need an extension. nobody is housed all their accommodations are denied i don't know why. but we do need more time you know they started they finished helpful repairs and stopped. and like mou it is raining in my rv they got half i wind shield in. thank you. why would you like us to collect this document and put it in the record? sure. that completes accomm

this is marcus schubert heads a small advertising agency in saxony on hud in central germany. he designs online shops, websites for care services, and logos for the local basketball club. last summer, he tested a software and designed his 1st virtual model. sophia, he soon realized that the more revealing her appearance was the more interest he generated. the hutton attorneys. uh, of course i created a profile since i'm a cheese won't be to 70 toll comes, comes from bell in as greenish blue, eyes, long blonde had on the same figure. so i'm confused with the tribute to divide shows these attributes to the simple reason that i thought they would generate the most beautiful, those of us getting to the less than kicks. marcus schubert created the image is using the stable diffusion software. you works with text instructions or prompts in a flash, super transport, sophia, to new locations you can achieve and a few minutes what would normally need an elaborate time consuming photo shift. here sophia is in the mountains. and the next moment, she's in the big city. without having to t

the glo has been charged by hud with discriminating against blacks and latinos in the disbursement of the money. you tell me that al green is not trying to look out for people of color. lacks and latinos. i want to talk to the governor about this. i am sending him a letter to ask for a meeting to discuss these things. host: john in new hampshire. independent. go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. first thing is first. i am 65 years old. i have never voted in my life. this is the first time i voted because the campaign was a lot different -- the candidate was different than the others we have seen. all of the other candidates in the past seem the same to me. you seem like a typical democrat, sir. i do not like saying it. basically, you yesterday on the floor of the house and the senate and the other democrats that were out in the street that looked like a saturday light -- live -- saturday night live skit. i cannot believe why your people are doing. host: get to your point because we are running out of time. why did you find it ridiculous? caller: it is ridiculous because it

region will have to come up with a counter offer that also fulfills palo study and rights to state hud reconciling these opposing goals and will determine whether the region is heading towards confrontation, cooperation with all the 0. i'm a little slipping, condemnation of chums plan across the europe. the kind report from bill and reaction from european governments to the suggestion from the trunk white has, has been relatively solidly come. the nature of this suggestion, the german foreign minister analynn a bell block saying that causes must not be expelled from gaza. is that it is important to remember that gaza is key to a palestinian state. there should be no permanent occupation or forcing out of people from garza then from the french government, from the spanish government. very similar sentiments. the spanish foreign minister sang gaza is a place for gauze and palestinians, and is fundamental to a palestinian state as part of a 2 state solution, but can, is the only way to guarantee prosperity and security for israel. the french government also putting up pretty similar senti

he also supported kristi noem and scott turner for homeland security and hud so, yes, he is willing.urple state of pennsylvania to work with trump and the administration. and he is being considered a potential candidate for 2028. stuart: he's come a long way. he is the common sense democrat. that's what he is. thanks, lauren. coming up, if you want to own an iconic piece of sports memorabilia like patrick mahomes signed rookie card or helmet eli manning wore in the super bowl, you're in luck. ken goldin has all that and more. he's in the studio and clutching the hell mitt as we speak -- helmet as we speak. come on over here, young man. that's the super bowl helmet; right? ♪ ♪ empower ♪ hey, i got her a little something. a little something, dad? oh, umm. hi. walt rolled his 401k accounts into an empower ira and it's grown nicely. so i say, let a gramps be a gramps. okay, just promise me it doesn't make a lot of noise. (engine roars) (♪) go, baby! go! (♪) thanks, grandpa! get good at money. so you can be a little bad. empower. what do a neurosurgeon, a country artist, and a television

i am moving on to the hud vast program.something that is very important in terms of reducing homeless veterans. we did see a growth in homeless veterans increased by 7.4% from 2022-2023 for a viral variety of reasons. the program pairs rental assistance to housing vouchers targeted at veteran specifically with case management and other support services. if confirmed, what would you do to support the program and increase collaboration between the va and todd? >> you and i talk about it in the office being very important because we look at the areas of disability. is it actually enough to provide people their resources to have a home. for me, i will look at this not just as a va issue i will look at it across the spectrum with hud and any other department which we can to make sure that this is something that is not the dark spot on the veteran service where we have homelessness like they do spoken all the time. i'm willing to take whatever we can in the va outside the va and i'm looking forward to having a good relationship i

what about hud? what about the epa just to name a few?emocrats claim america has a housing shortage that keeps saying we need more affordable housing. or just think of the number of nifty apartments that could be carved into these old government buildings. that's a lot of apartments. joining us now nancy mace, south carolina congresswoman and house oversight committee member. congresswoman, president trump weighed in on what he saw and we all saw today. watch. >> >> peter: democratic lawmakers trying to get into the department of education earlier today? >> oh, i see the same ones, i see maxine waters a low life. i see all these people. they don't love our country. they don't love our country. >> laura: congresswoman, if this was reversed and a male conservative congressman was yelling in the face female security guard during a democrat administration what do you think the reaction would be. >> outrage by everyone in the evidentist legacy media. would be all over the internet that kind of propaganda. it's not because they hate donald trum

. >> so the the there's a hud housing grant that looks very exciting because that is $7 million overe years. we have confirmation on that that one is coming in. so good news we are looking at an epa grant for 3 million and california ocean protection council for 1.5 the coastal commission for just la seven 5750 k and then another epa for bay water quality improve meant for 2 million. so like i said that's the big number that's going to stick out to everybody because we are very, very hopeful that all of these grants are happening and happening at the maximum possible amount that we can get them for the general fund support number we are taking it down from the base budget which is our starting point. every fiscal year or current year budget where we are today has a higher general fund number sorry has the lower general fund number of the 7.6 that you see here the base budget includes things like the salaries and benefits that have been negotiated with all of the unions and so we start out at a higher number so we're going back down to 7.5 and i know it doesn't look like a change but

against hud or. >> the headset. and so. >> i mean, we. >> saw that. we're hoping that. >> you know, we. >> will see more of that. we also know that there's some. >> political theater at play. right? so they're not going. >> to. >> say that they will. >> stand against him. or any of these appointments if they're. >> not going. >> to if. >> they. >> think that they're. >> going to fail. >> so they. if it is only. >> three votes, that is going to make the difference, or four votes, they will make sure that it has the votes. >> if there's not. >> a majority that are going to stand. against these appointees, then i think that they. >> they will fail. >> all right, ryan wiggins and alphonso david, esquire, thank you both for being with us. coming up, how the fall of diversity programs at the federal level is emboldening republican leaders at the state and local level to scrap programs, too, especially in the south. the mayor of birmingham, south. the mayor of birmingham, alabama, is prilosec knows, for a fire... one fire extinguisher beats 10 buckets of wat

constructed by a private developer, the city acquired midtown park after the private developer defaulted on a hud insured mortgage. midtown park is one of the few affordable developments owned by the city. most affordable buildings are owned by nonprofit developers on land that's owned by the city but under long term lease midtown families are predominantly african-american and senior heads of household no major repairs have been made to midtown since the time of construction for example, the plumbing for the heating system still uses 1964 pipes. these old pipes have a buildup of sludge that impacts the boilers boilers typically have a useful life of ten years but due to the old pipes going into the boilers the useful life of the boilers is cut in half and property replace management has to replace boilers every 3 to 5 years currently the property has 3 or 4 vacancies that are being held to allow for any required on site relocation of tenants while repairs are being made. so the reasons for this ordinance so midtown has critical urgent repairs and capital needs that include replacement of those b

i'll give you an example from my old neck of the woods at hud.e department of housing and urban development had well over 10,000 employees. by the time i left in 20 early 2017, we probably had just over 7000 employees, and going through the hiring process took quite a bit of time. and so there's already this red tape and bureaucracy that made it hard to replace needed people. this guy is making it ten times worse and absolutely kneecapping really important agencies. >> so yeah, the administration, they're trying to reduce the size of federal government as much as it can. but is it clear the people who are doing this fully understand the consequences? i mean, for example, are they not concerned about the national security implications of offering those deferred resignations to the cia or the global impacts of shutting down the u.s. agency for international development? >> you see. >> this is the i think, the mistake that a lot of people are making. this is not a good faith effort to reform our government and make it more efficient. this is a full

housing, connecticut organizations that rely on federal funding from hud to help families at risk of homelessness also in jeopardy. 150,000 connecticut residents depend on federally funded housing programs, even a temporary pause puts them at risk because potentially it puts them out of their homes. i heard from one organization that can provide permanent supportive housing to over 40 households in waterbury and meriden with the help of hud funding. this housing is for people with disabilities and their families during this chaos and confusion they reported that the payment system for hud was down and they were unable to access the funds just days before the rent was due on the first of the month. while the system now seems to be back online, that organization had to live through poe tensely tranlic trauma -- potentially tragic trauma and the stress was debilitating for them and the trauma has lasting effect. it increases the sense of insecurity for the people who already feel an anxiety about their future. the low-income home energy assistance program known as lihe. we all know it b

moneys that are hopefully going to come in and i would say for most of those grants particularly the hud grants that's the biggest one. the component of that not all of that is going to the planning department. the component that does go to the planning department as it relates to development review or historic preservation it was mostly earmarked for permit reform efforts, process improvement, streamlining things of that nature to help move particularly housing projects faster so again, not a direct corollary to the bbc's work program and how i've developed the bbc's work program for the coming year and the out year none of it was relying on that. it was if you look at it as compared to the current budget year that we're in of 2425, it's actually we're proposing an increase in fte count for preservation specifically focused on landmarks and national register nominations by about a point nine fte so almost a for additional staff person to focus on that especially given the pressures that are being put on our gems that we want to make sure get put on to local listings. so we've really shi

despite a windfall of additional funding for hud, these problems are, in many cases, getting worse. fortunately, mr. president, president trump has nominated someone to lead housing and urban development who knows a thing or two about overcoming adversity. scott turner grew up in plano, in richardson, texas, in challenging circumstances, but he was determined to achieve the american dream. at 10, he told his mother he would play professional football. with a lot of determination and hard work, he graduated from the university of illinois and was drafted to play in the nfl. in the 2003 offseason, a time he could have used to take a break, this nfl athlete was interning in a congressional office, and since he hung up his cleats scott turner spent his time working to make a difference. that's included founding an organization to help children in poverty, serving as a texas state legislator, and helping to lead the white house opportunity and revitalization counsel during the first trump administration. mr. president, the 2017 republican tax relief legislation did a lot to help revitali

it wasn't meant to stop medicaid in every state or to shut down hud's renl assistance or -- rental assistance or homeless funding. if that's your defense, that meant that omb sent a memo so poorly drafted, that it caused programs to be cut off. either the memo deliberately stopped funding for 2600 programs for water and sewer projects, for housing, for meals for seniors or they were so incompetent that without meaning to, they sent a memo to the whole federal government that had that effect. well, lardless of which -- regardless of which answer it is, the person behind that, russ vought, should not be running the office of management and budget that determines how fungoes out in the federal government. and i think this is especially true because there's no question that russ vought and president trump intend tyke away some of the funding that congress has provided on a bipartisan basis to help families in new hampshire and around the country save money things like their energy bills, to help address pollution like pfas and i would just remind folks that we passed the bipartisan infrastructure

the glo has been charged by hud with discriminating against blacks and latinos in the disbursement ofhe money. you tell me that al green is not trying to look out for people of color. lacks and latinos. i want to talk to the governor about this. i am sending him a letter to ask for a meeting to discuss these things. host: john in new hampshire. independent. go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. first thing is first. i am 65 years old. i have never voted in my life. this is the first time i voted because the campaign was a lot different -- the candidate was different than the others we have seen. all of the other candidates in the past seem the same to me. you seem like a typical democrat, sir. i do not like saying it. basically, you yesterday on the floor of the house and the senate and the other democrats that were out in the street that looked like a saturday light -- live -- saturday night live skit. i cannot believe why your people are doing. host: get to your point because we are running out of time. why did you find it ridiculous? caller: it is ridiculous because it lo

millions of families will lose access to services provided by snap, tanf and hud housing assistance. millions of students in head start, grade schools and cleanse will lose -- will lose access to federal loans and pell grants. millions of local firefighters and public safety officials will lose federal grants and resources needed to protect communities. millions of veterans would lose access to v.a. mortgages and home loans and suicide prevention services. is that woke, marxist ideology? you see, what's happening is they want to dismantle the public services that we all rely upon. can you imagine a week ago, a little more -- i guess it was a little more than a week ago, air traffic controllers were told to quit. and we got like a -- i think it is a 30% vacancy rate. we are short of air traffic krollers. and this is not something -- look, i had understand -- like i've been in politics, an appropriator for a while. sometimes people cry wolf. if you don't give us this money, it's going to be dire. but the air traffic controller situation is dire. we saw the impact of the understaffed la

we have two lenders to two loans through hud everything is bifurcated which gave us this unique access to this call hfa program. >> ultimately the counties safety program. >> if i can go over just a little bit it's a competitive program. >> there are 33 applicants in the state of california. it's a statewide program 33 applicants. of those 33 there was only 13 awardees. we were the only san francisco applicant to this program. so just to be clear, we did not take from any other applicants in san francisco. we were the number one score in all of that program statewide because of what we're providing the leverage that we were creating with our our efficiencies family. thank you for your comments. next speaker please. and before the next speaker begins just a reminder for everyone we have a full house while going through public comment you're going to hear two chimes the first time that you hear will be a little softer. it means you have 30s remaining . the second chime will alert you that your time has concluded and we need to move on to the next speaker. >> next pick up please. thank yo

we have two lenders to two loans through hud everything is bifurcated which gave us this unique access to this call hfa program. >> ultimately the counties safety program. >> if i can go over just a little bit it's a competitive program. >> there are 33 applicants in the state of california. it's a statewide program 33 applicants. of those 33 there was only 13 awardees. we were the only san francisco applicant to this program. so just to be clear, we did not take from any other applicants in san francisco. we were the number one score in all of that program statewide because of what we're providing the leverage that we were creating with our our efficiencies family. thank you for your comments. next speaker please. and before the next speaker begins just a reminder for everyone we have a full house while we're going through public comment you're going to hear two chimes the first time that you hear will be a little softer. it means you have 30s remaining . the second chime will alert you that your time has concluded and we need to move on to the next speaker. >> next pick up please. th