Scott Turner will oversee a department that housing advocates are worried will be used as a tool to implement President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.
Rod Lamkey/AP
The Senate voted to confirm Scott Turner as secretary of Housing and Urban Development in a 55-44 vote on Wednesday.
Two Democrats, Sens. John Fetterman and Peter Welch, joined Republicans in voting for Turner.
“He used to not be controversial, or I assumed that that was going to be pretty much a very bipartisan pick, and now the vibes changed, and now [Democrats] are just voting everything down,” Fetterman said after the vote.
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