Rep Maxine Waters Says On July 3rd That Ben Carson ‘Knows Nothing About The Mission Of HUD’

WASHINGTON – JUNE 19: U.S. President George W. Bush (R) presents a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Benjamin S. Carson, Sr. M.D (L), for his work with neurological disorders during an East Room ceremony June 19, 2008 at the White House in Washington, DC. The medal is the nation’s highest civilian award. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

My first impression of Dr. Ben Carson in his new position as Secretary of HUD is that he will bring needed change to HUD. Sometimes you need an outsider to make real change.

Speaking at this year’s Essence Festival on July 3, 2017 in New Orleans, Maxine Waters said about Carson that “He needs to go back to the hospital, back to the operating room. If he thinks, when he comes before [the House Committee on Financial Services], where I am the ranking member… and thinks that I am going to give him a pass, I am going to take his ass apart.”