Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson says he intends to leave his post
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Source: Washington Post
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson says he intends to leave his post at the end of President Trump’s first term.
Carson made his remarks in a segment airing Monday evening on Newsmax TV, a conservative news outlet. In his two years leading HUD, Carson has dialed back civil rights enforcement at the agency and suspended Obama-era rules that had been aimed at fighting housing segregation and discrimination. “I will certainly finish out this term,” Carson said during his interview with Newsmax. But he added that "I would be interested in returning to the private sector because I think you have just as much influence, maybe more, there.”
HUD did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Trump appointed Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who gained notoriety for his pioneering surgery separating conjoined twins, to lead HUD even though he lacked prior housing, executive or government experience. He ran an unsuccessful bid for president in 2016.
Carson’s two-year tenure as HUD secretary got off to a rocky start, after allowing his son to help organize an agency “listening tour” in Baltimore despite warnings from department lawyers that doing so risked violating federal ethics rules. Ben Carson Jr., a local businessman, and his wife were inviting people with whom they potentially had business dealings, the Post reported at the time. Carson also came under Congressional scrutiny with his lavish efforts to redecorate his office.
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Full title: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson says he intends to leave his post at the end of President Trump’s first term
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March 4 at 7:56 PM
Carson made his remarks in a segment aired Monday evening on Newsmax TV, a conservative news outlet. In his two years as head of HUD, Carson dialed back civil rights enforcement at the agency and suspended Obama-era rules that had been aimed at fighting housing segregation and discrimination.
“I will certainly finish out this term,” Carson said during his interview with Newsmax. But he added that “I would be interested in returning to the private sector because I think you have just as much influence, maybe more, there.”
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
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TRY to listen to him speak for any time more than 1 minute. 
Being highly suspicious of all things GOP by nature and by history, I think Carson has been quietly active at demolishing everything good for the people at HUD. He just wants to finish his dirty work but needs a little more time.
Possibly also has some more government job-related grifting to do......
Good overview article from August, 2017 in the New York Magazine:
Is Anybody Home at HUD?
A long-harbored conservative dream — the “dismantling of the administrative state” — is taking place under Secretary Ben Carson.
By Alec MacGillis
Link: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/08/ben-carson-hud-secretary.html
(snips)
Now, however, HUD faced an existential crisis. The new president’s then–chief strategist, Steve Bannon, had called in February for the “deconstruction of the administrative state.” It was not hard to guess that, for a White House that swept to power on a wave of racially tinged rural resentment and anti-welfare sentiment, high on the demolition list might be a department with “urban” in its name. The administration’s preliminary budget outline had already signaled deep cuts for HUD. And Donald Trump had chosen to lead the department someone with zero experience in government or social policy — the nominee whose unsuitability most mirrored Trump’s lack of preparation to run the country.
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But there is a whole other side to Trump’s takeover of Washington: What happens to the government itself, and all it is tasked with doing, when it is placed under the command of the Chaos President? HUD has emerged as the perfect distillation of the right’s antipathy to governing. If the great radical-conservative dream was, in Grover Norquist’s famous words, to “drown government in a bathtub,” then this was what the final gasps of one department might look like.
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