The Biden administration is going to have one less Cabinet secretary.
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge announced on Monday that she will resign from her post later this month. In an interview with USA Today, Fudge revealed her last day is March 22 – before another election season heats up that she believes will be “crazy” and “silly.”
“It's time to go home,” Fudge said. “I do believe strongly that I have done just about everything I could do at HUD for this administration as we go into this crazy, silly season of an election.” (RELATED: Outstanding Republican Drops Retirement Bombshell After Affair Rumors)
Fudge's resignation will make her the second Cabinet member to leave the administration after then-Labor Secretary Marty Walsh departed the White House last year.
“From her time as a mayor, to her years as a fierce advocate in the U.S. House of Representatives, Marcia's vision, passion and focus on increasing economic opportunity have been assets to our country,” President Biden said in a statement. (RELATED: Biden Backtracks On Statement About ‘Illegal' Immigrant)
“I'm grateful for all of her contributions toward a housing system that works for all Americans, and I wish her well in her next chapter,” the president added.
Biden described Fudge as a “strong voice for expanding efforts to build generational wealth through homeownership and lowering costs and promoting fairness for America's renters.
“Under Marcia's transformational leadership, we have worked hard to lower housing costs and increase supply. We've proposed the largest investment in affordable housing in U.S. history,” Biden added. “We've taken steps to aggressively combat racial discrimination in housing by ensuring home appraisals are more fair and by strengthening programs to redress the negative impacts of redlining. Thanks to Secretary Fudge, we've helped first-time homebuyers, and we are working to cut the cost of renting. And there are more housing units under construction right now than at any time in the last 50 years.”
Fudge, 71, served as a Democrat in the House of Representatives from 2008 to 2021, representing the 11th Congressional District of Ohio which includes the city of Cleveland.
“She was a member of several Congressional Caucuses and past Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus,” her biography on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development website says, adding that in 1999, she “was elected the first female and first African American mayor of Warrensville Heights, Ohio, a position she held for two terms.”
“Don't look for me to ever be on another ballot or another appointee or anything like that,” Fudge told USA Today, noting that she looks forward to spending time with her 92-year-old mother and relatives back in Ohio. “I really do look forward to being a private citizen.”
Fudge also used the interview to argue that affordable housing should be a bipartisan issue.
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