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Chairman Tim Scott Urges Committee to Advance Scott Turner's HUD Nomination, January 23, 2025

January 23, 2025 · U.S. Senate Banking Committee GOP · 0:05:06

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What happened

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott delivered opening remarks at the committee’s executive session to vote on Scott Turner’s nomination for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development on January 23, 2025, according to the committee broadcast. Scott urged his colleagues to advance Turner’s nomination to the Senate floor, describing him as “the man who will be leading that comeback at the Department of Housing and Urban Development,” as stated in his remarks.

Scott traced Turner’s path from dishwasher at Spring Creek Barbecue to the NFL, the Texas state legislature, and leadership of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, where he said more than $50 billion entered majority-minority communities with gentrification under 5 percent, according to his remarks. He argued HUD is failing its core mission: despite soaring spending, homelessness rose 18 percent in the last 12 months and 33 percent since 2020, housing prices soared, and rent rose over 20 percent since President Biden took office, as stated in the remarks.

Scott said Turner believes the country needs millions more homes of all kinds — single-family homes, apartments, condos, duplexes, and manufactured housing — and framed housing affordability, rent, and grocery costs as nonpartisan burdens, according to his remarks.

Why it matters

The remarks are the committee chairman’s formal case for Turner’s confirmation, tying the nomination to a supply-first housing agenda and to Turner’s opportunity-zone record from the first Trump administration.

Sources: U.S. Senate Banking Committee GOP, “Chairman Scott Opening Remarks at Executive Session to Vote on HUD Secretary Nominee –Jan. 23, 2025”, 2025-01-23 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-01-23). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.