Joe Biden has selected U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to reports Tuesday night.
Fudge, D-Ohio, will join Biden’s Cabinet as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, while Biden is leaning toward having Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack serve as agriculture secretary, a position Fudge had lobbied for, according to reports by Politico and The Washington Post.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday evening, Fudge said she was “in a holding pattern” but confirmed she had spoken with Biden and other members of the transition team.
“Let me just say that — if I were to be named — certainly it’s an honor and a privilege to be asked to be in a president’s cabinet,” she said. “It is something that probably in my wildest dreams I never would have thought about. If I can help this president in any way possible, I am more than happy to do it. It’s a great honor and privilege to be part of something so good.”
Fudge had received support from Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., and Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, to receive a role in Biden’s Cabinet.
She is a member of the House Agriculture Committee and sought to serve as the head of the Department of Agriculture, noting in an interview with Politico last month that Black policymakers are often slotted into specific Cabinet positions.
“As this country becomes more and more diverse, we’re going to have to stop looking at only certain agencies as those that people like me fit in,” she said. “You know, it’s always ‘we want to put the Black person in Labor or HUD.”
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Just remember, Joe Biden is a “moderate” and that is why his cabinet is radical.
AND Note, how many blacks he’s nominated, YET HIS “Cabinet is not seen as being diverse enough’… HOW DIVERSE DOES IT need to get? NO MORE WHITES period?
Somehow or other, this selection seems to fit Biden………. Oh, Fudge!
Wonder if any of the liberal media will call out Joe as a racist for slotting Fudge into one of the ‘certain agencies” that people like Fudge fit in. I’m not holding my breath.
Criticize a democrat? LOL. That’s so pre 2010s. SNL doesn’t even make obvious jokes about them.
Seems being a democrat has evolved into a religion.
YOu must be joking. THe media, criticize a democrat? You’d stand a better chance of building a snowman in hell..
Once again, slojoe is choosing NOONE. I doubt if he could pick any of his so called “cabinet” members, that have been announced so far, out of a lineup consisting of farm animals, with his “pick” being the only human in the lineup.
AND finding out this hack, is a fellow Ohioan, i am SICK OF THE VOTING practices of my fellow buckeyes…