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On the 22nd (local time), U.S. President-elect Donald Trump nominated Scott Turner, former chairman of the White House Opportunity Activation Committee, as a candidate for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for his second term in office.
President-elect Trump introduced Turner as “an NFL (professional football) veteran who has led unprecedented efforts to transform some of America’s most disadvantaged communities.”
Turner is the first black ministerial candidate in the second Trump administration.
He played for the NFL’s Washington Redskins from 1995 to 2004, and later entered politics and was elected to the Texas State House of Representatives in 2012.
trump electedIn 2019, during In’s first term in office, he served as chairman of the Opportunity Activation Committee, which was newly established by presidential executive order.
President-elect Trump nominated Representative Lori Chavez-DeLemer as Secretary of Labor.
Additionally, Dr. Janet Nesheiwat was appointed as Director of the Public Health Service and Surgeon General, former Representative Dave Weldon was appointed as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Marty Macari, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins University, was appointed as Director of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
