The Senate voted 58-41 Thursday morning to confirm Ben Carson as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Unlike controversial Trump cabinet picks like Betsy DeVos for Education Secretary and Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, the vote to confirm Carson did not face much pushback from congressional Democrats.
Ben Carson has no experience running a large federal bureaucracy. His agenda as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is unknown: it is not clear how much he'll work to change existing policy. In his confirmation hearing, Carson would not commit to preventing tax dollars from making their way to Trump businesses.
Source: nytimes.com
