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Turner Delivers Day 1 Remarks to HUD, Feb. 7, 2025

February 7, 2025 · HUDchannel · 0:17:23

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What happened

HUD published a second, distinct early workforce address under the title ‘Secretary Scott Turner Delivers Day 1 Remarks to HUD,’ separate from the February 6 workforce remarks paged on this site. HUD’s description states that Turner delivered the remarks on his first day at the department. In the address, a transcript of which was reviewed for this page, Turner said he was honored and humbled to be HUD’s 19th secretary, thanked his family, his pastor and President Trump — noting, as he put it, that there would be no Secretary Turner without President Trump — and described HUD’s mission as expanding opportunity and helping people become self-sufficient rather than dependent on government.

Why it matters

Together with the February 6 workforce remarks, this Day 1 address is the founding statement of Turner’s HUD: the mission framing — opportunity, self-sufficiency, and service to urban, rural and tribal communities — that his later program actions have repeatedly cited back to.

Sources: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, ‘Secretary Scott Turner Delivers Day 1 Remarks to HUD,’ February 7, 2025 (official HUDchannel upload, embedded above). This page is grounded in the upload’s title, description, metadata and transcript.