HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge To Retire This Month

USA Today reports:

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge will step down from her top post in the Biden administration this month, she announced Monday, saying that after decades of public service, she’s retiring and returning to Ohio.

“It’s time to go home,’’ Fudge told USA TODAY in an exclusive interview. “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.”

Fudge has served as a cabinet secretary for three years, steering the federal agency through housing crises in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. She is the second Black woman to head the agency.

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Fudge is only the second cabinet secretary to leave the Biden administration so far. At this point in the Trump administration there had been 10 departures. https://t.co/M5vkIYPq1H

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