Scott Turner (left), candidate for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development [AFP 연합뉴스 자료사진]
[헤럴드경제=성연진 기자] 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) for his second term in office.
In a statement that day, President-elect Trump said Turner was “an NFL veteran who has led unprecedented efforts to transform some of America’s most disadvantaged communities,” adding, “Scott will work with me to make America great again for all Americans.” “It is,” he introduced.
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 then entered politics. He was elected to the Texas State House of Representatives in 2012 and served 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 this Friday evening, President-elect Trump announced the appointment of key positions in the next administration. Beginning with the nomination of Scott Bessent, the founder of the hedge fund ‘Key Square Group’, as the candidate for Secretary of the Treasury, the nomination of Representative Lori Chavez-Deremer (56, Oregon) as the Secretary of Labor, and the announcement of Turner as the candidate for HUD Secretary, Secretary of Agriculture. The selection of all ministerial candidates except for has been completed.
CNN reported that former U.S. Senator Kelly Leffler is likely to be the remaining Secretary of Agriculture.
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.
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