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DNC War Room Claims Neurosurgeon Ben Carson Is A ‘Moron’

Members of the Democrat National Committee appear to believe that retired neurosurgeon and current Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is a moron.

The remarks were made because while answering questions from the House Financial Services Committee this week, the award-winning member of the American Academy of Achievement, the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans mixed up the niche, barely used real estate term REO with Oreo cookies.

Thanks to this mix-up, Dr. Ben Carson faced constant mockery from Hollywood and members of the left-wing media as well as from the DNC, which went so far this week as to blast the Doctor as a “moron.”

As of Saturday morning, the tweet had more than 2,000 comments but fewer than 300 likes. This means that people were not happy about the comments against Ben Carson.

“Ben Carson a moron? Are you out of your mind, or just blatant #racists ?”
“He’s a neurosurgeon. Let that sink in.” said one comment.

“You’re all neurosurgeons?”
“Cool.” posted another.

“He literally is a brain surgeon.” said a comment.

“Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon, is considered a “moron” by a group that looks up to Obama, Biden, Schumer and Pelosi. That’s hilarious!” said a tweet.

“Well you obviously don’t have anything inside your head that he (world famous neurosurgeon) will need to operate on.” posted another.

“Dr. Carson is smarter than the whole Dem party. Keep poking the bear. You only help him.” said a comment.

As man people on Twitter wrote, Ben Carson is not a moron. Nor does his plan for homeless shelters have anything to do with discriminating against transgender people. It’s about protecting women and girls from men who pretend to be women (aka “transgender women”).

The HUD secretary also isn’t a punk. This Friday he spoke on Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” and pushed back on the lies about his transgender policy and blasted the Dems for only being willing to attack and not listen and learn.

“I think we’ve reached a very sad point in our country where a hearing that is supposed to be about what the policies are becomes just attack, attack, attack. Not being very interested in what the answers are,” he said. “I hope we can move beyond that and really deal with the issues.”

The HUD secretary also addressed the REO/Oreo mix-up: “[I]t used to be a very common thing. We used to have over 65,000 properties about 10 years ago,” he said. “We are down to 6500. I can honestly say no one has ever used that term since I have been at HUD, but I know what they are, just from having grown up in Detroit.”

Ben Carson Rips Ilhan Omar After She Attacked Him About ‘Oreo’ Testimony

On Wednesday, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson invoked abortion as he fired back at Rep. Ilhan Omar one day after the congresswoman criticized him for his appearance at a House hearing.

“I hope @IlhanMN knows I care about all people, even those she doesn’t recognize as having a right to life,” Ben Carson tweeted on Wednesday, referencing Rep. Omar’s stance supporting women’s right to an abortion.

The HUD Secretary seemed to trip up multiple times during the Tuesday House Financial Services Committee hearing, he appeared to confuse a real estate term with Oreo cookies, and he tried to reclaim time during Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s five minutes of questioning, even though the rules don’t allow it, as The Hill reported.

“Not sure he was fully awake” during the Tuesday hearing, Rep. Omar tweeted “Maybe he meant to reclaim his time back to sleep.”

Ben Carson, a former brain surgeon, mentioned his time in medicine in his response to Rep. Omar.

“Since you brought it up… I know what it’s like to actually be sleepy, especially after 18-hour surgeries and operating on babies in the womb,” Carson posted on Twitter.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson fired back on FOX Business.

“You can see that some of the networks are only interested in those kinds of sound bites that they can use to ridicule,” he told FOX Business’ Stuart Varney Opens a New Window. on Wednesday. “The fact of the matter is I was having difficulty hearing her.”

The exchange began after California Democrat Rep. Katie Porter asked Ben Carson to explain the gap in REO rates.

“Do you know what an REO is?” she asked.

“OREO?” Carson replied, referring to the cookie by that name.

“No, not an Oreo—an REO,” countered Porter, who then explained that she was asking about real-estate owned properties.

The HUD Secretary stated that he is very familiar with foreclosed properties and REOs and has not only read “extensively” about them but even knew about them as teenager of where he grew up in Detroit. He believes that Porter is not up to date on the current REO portfolio.

“When a family gets into a problem with their mortgage and it’s backed by our agency we go through a lot of procedures with the banks to make sure that they don’t get foreclosed upon and the few cases where they do obviously we are able to sell those properties very quickly,” Ben Carson explained. “And the REO portfolio just over the last 10 years has dramatically decreased by ten-fold you know 65 thousand down to 65 hundred.”

“So I suspect when Katie Porter was an expert in this area things were very different that’s why I invited her to speak with our staff that deals with these so they can bring her up to date — maybe she would then be able to understand what’s going on,” Carson added.

Newt Gingrich Praises Ben Carson’s ‘Bold Move’ To Kick Illegal Immigrants Out Of Public Housing

Ben Carson has been under constant attack from the left and their friends in the media for the sin of being a conservative African American.

Carson cuts through all the noise and delivers the truth so they hate him for it. The sad truth we must face is that wait times to get public housing is soaring, hurting poor Americans who need it the most. Carson made the bold move to try and fix the system by removing immigrants from illegally getting access and the left went nuts.

“In a bold move, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is both helping poor Americans and enforcing the law.” Newt wrote.

Some people in Congress may consider enforcing the law and prioritizing help for poor Americans (including people who immigrated to the U.S. legally) over help for people in the country illegally controversial or unacceptable. The solution for their position is for Congress to change the law. Until that happens, it’s pretty hard to complain that a cabinet officer is enforcing the law which Congress wrote.

Helping poor American families is the main mission of HUD. One lifeline HUD extends to vulnerable families is housing assistance.

However, 75% of Americans eligible for housing assistance – many of whom are children, seniors, or persons living with a disability – are prevented from receiving the aid to which they are legally entitled.

Millions of qualified American families are stranded on waiting lists that have endless queues – the average of which stretch on for years.

In L.A., California, the waiting list is more than 4 years long. In Miami-Dade County, Fla., thousands have been wait-listed since July 2008 – more than 10 years. In other localities, such as Orange County, Calif., and Orlando, Fla., Since 2015, public housing authorities have decided to simply close their waiting list and abandon new applications altogether.

Despite these waiting lists for Americans, there are an about 32,000 households occupied by people in the country illegally, who have no right to be getting taxpayer assistance. This is 32,000 households that could be occupied by Americans who qualify for the assistance but cannot get it.

In effect, thousands of Americans are being discriminated in favor of people who are in the country illegally – or are unlawfully receiving taxpayer aid they do not deserve and should not be getting.

HUD Secretary Carson has investigated this injustice and discovered that HUD has long been prohibited from granting federal funds to people who are not legally in the country. The prohibition – which Congress enacted, and Congress has the power to change – includes a mandate to end assistance whenever a leaseholder knowingly allows a person in the country illegally to reside in HUD-supported housing.

The rules constitute more than a mere functional necessity for law and order; they are a moral necessity for a nation that want’s to take care of its own vulnerable citizens. After all, public assistance is paid for and subsidized by taxpayer money.

But these crucial rules are easily skirted by a loophole that lets people in the country illegally who are living with qualified residents declare themselves “ineligible.” This means they don’t have their immigration status checked, and they continue to live in taxpayer-funded housing.

If Congress members don’t like how the law is being enforced, they should change the law. Until that happens, federal agencies, like HUD, should continue to do its own constitutional duty and enforce the laws as written by Congress.

Today, to assist agencies in the enforcement of the existing law, legal status can be easily verified through fast screening, using the SAVE system of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. This screening process is used by one-third of public housing agencies and needs only to be expanded to end the “illegible” loophole.

Last week, HUD unveiled a proposal that would require all residents living in HUD-supported housing who are under the age of 62 to be screened through this system. It’s a simple, egalitarian amendment that promises to restore proper enforcement and accountability to supplement the spirit of existing law.

As a result, the new measure HUD has championed is a great step toward protecting America’s forgotten men and women and promoting the rule of law. There is no legitimate reason or excuse to keep hundreds of thousands of American families waiting in line, when a lifeline could be extended instead.

Maxine Waters Claims Ben Carson’s New Rule Is ‘Cruel’ And Demands Trump Withdraw ‘Senseless’ Proposal

Maxine Waters slammed Ben Carson for his new HUD rule that plans to remove illegal immigrants from public housing and replace them with poor Americans.

Housing and Urban Development secretary Ben Carson announced the changes recently and received acclaim from most Americans who believe that this is the most generous country in history, but we need to help our citizens first.

Maxine Waters disagrees and wants the United States to be a free gravy train for anyone who can make it to our soil, while turning our backs on our own citizens who are most in need.

The Washington Examiner reported that House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters demanded that Trump’s administration must withdraw a proposal to tighten regulations aimed at limiting public housing benefits to immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

Waters and more than 20 Democrats from the committee criticized Saturday the “senseless” proposal from the Department of Housing and Urban Development after the agency acknowledged the policy could displace more than 55,000 children from public housing who are legal residents or citizens.

The proposal was published on Friday in the federal register, and said that it would target families in which at least one member is living in the country illegally.

Our current rules already bar illegal immigrants from receiving federal housing subsidies, but families of mixed immigration status — with at least one person being a legal resident — are exempted so they can all stay together.

“This proposed rule is yet another proposal from HUD under your leadership that fundamentally contradicts the agency’s mission ‘to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all,’” the Dems wrote in a Friday letter to HUD Secretary Ben Carson. “This cruel and needless targeting of struggling immigrant families only contributes to historic patterns of inequality, which ultimately hinder the U.S. housing market and American economy.”

The newly proposed rule would allow individual members of mixed families who have legal status to stay in public housing. But since other members of the family without status would be barred, the ones with legal status would be unlikely to stay for fear of separating the family, HUD’s own analysis found.

Ben Carson: More Than $25B Committed To ‘Opportunity Zones’ In Inner Cities Thanks To Trump

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson announced big numbers while describing the early successes of President Trump‘s executive order forming “Opportunity Zones” in low-income, urban areas.

Carson stated that private businesses are committed to spending $25 billion in inner cities throughout the U.S., pledging to build businesses in areas that weak or abandoned economically.

Ben Carson told Fox Business host Stuart Varney that companies are creating new jobs and opening new businesses in large cities throughout our country, capturing the excitement of Republicans and Democrats alike.

“We already have over 25 billion dollars committed to ‘opportunity zones.’ I’ve had the opportunity to visit several of them and just last Friday, I was in St. Louis where an old, abandoned foundry is serving as the nidus for the entire area and the opportunity zone. They’re going to have entertainment. They’re going to have grocery stores. They’re going to have apartments. They’re going to have businesses for employment, training. All kinds of things going on and an enormous amount of excitement. And the best thing is there were Republicans there and Democrats there and they were all having a good time together.” said Carson.

He also explained that this administration is very optimistic about the development of “opportunity zones” because it has a potential to lead to long-term investments in the city instead of temporary assistance to those in need. The President’s executive order offered a tax incentive for businesses to invest in “opportunity zones.” The longer the businesses stay, the more the incentive grows.

“The real difference with these opportunity zones is that the investment doesn’t really pay off until [the business] has been there for five years,” Carson explained, as he noted that the largest incentive doesn’t kick in until the company has been operating for at least ten years.

“You’re going to be very interested in your return on investment so you’re not just going to walk away,” he explained. “That’s really going to make a big difference. That’s never been done before.”

The unemployment rates in inner cities is often well above the national average, with part of the problem being that not many businesses are willing to try to develop in economically unstable areas.

When Trump announced his executive order forming the “opportunity zones,” he explained that he believes the program will ensure that every American is lifted by the recent economic boom of our country.

“Our goal is to make sure America’s great new prosperity is broadly shared by all our citizens,” said the President, later adding, “No citizen will be forgotten, no community will be ignored, and no American will be left on the sidelines.”

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