The following article by Alec MacGilis was posted on the ProPublica website August 22, 2017:
A long-harbored conservative dream — the “dismantling of the administrative state” — is taking place under Secretary Ben Carson.
This story was co-published with New York magazine.
In mid-May, Steve Preston, who served as the secretary of housing and urban development in the final two years of the George W. Bush administration, organized a dinner at the Metropolitan Club in Washington, D.C., for the new chief of that department, Ben Carson, and five other former secretaries whose joint tenure stretched all the way back to Gerald Ford. It was an event with no recent precedent within the department, and it had the distinct feel of an intervention. Continue reading “Is Anybody Home at HUD?”