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Ben Carson's Impossible Vision for American Housing

In his confirmation hearing, he simultaneously pledged to maintain and eliminate programs from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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When he was on the campaign trail, Ben Carson spoke frequently about the inefficiency of government, and expressed skepticism about particular government programs. “We have 4.1 million federal employees, and we have 645 government agencies and sub-agencies. And there's an enormous amount of inefficiency and overlap to be gotten rid of,” he told ’s Kai Ryssdal in November 2015. He also expressed special disdain for an, released in the summer of 2015, that required local communities to assess segregation in their communities and try to address it. “Based on the history of failed socialist.

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