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▶ Friday evening, with a flurry of appointment announcements, all ministerial candidates other than the Minister of Agriculture were nominated.
▶ Fox performers selected including the Surgeon General and FDA Director
On the 22nd (local time), U.S. President-elect Donald Trump nominated Scott Turner (52), former chairman of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council (WHORC), as a candidate for Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in his second administration.
In a statement that day, 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.”
“Scott will work with me to make America great again for all Americans,” he added.
Turner is the first black secretary candidate in President-elect Trump’s second administration.
He played as a player for the NFL’s Washington Redskins from 1995 to 2004, and later devoted himself to politics, being elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 2012 and serving until 2017.
He was in charge of the WHORC, which was newly established by presidential executive order in 2019 during President-elect Trump’s first term in office.
On Friday evening, President-elect Trump made a flurry of announcements about major positions in the next administration, starting with his nomination of Scott Bessent, founder of the hedge fund Key Square Group, as a candidate for Treasury Secretary.
Following Bessent, Representative Lori Chavez-Deremer (56, Oregon) was nominated as Secretary of Labor, and Turner, a candidate for HUD Secretary, was announced, completing the selection of all ministerial candidates except for the Secretary of Agriculture.
CNN reported on this day that President-elect Trump plans to propose the position of Secretary of Agriculture to former U.S. Senator Kelly Leffler.
President-elect Trump appointed Dr. Janet Nesheiwat as Director and Surgeon General of the Public Health Service Commission (PHSCC), former Congressman Dave Weldon as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Marty Macari Jones as Director of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A surgical specialist at Hopkins University was appointed.
Among them, Dr. Nesheiwat and Dr. Makari are people who have appeared as regular panelists on Fox News, CNN reported.
