When Senator Brown asked you a question during the confirmation process, she asked if you believed that HUD currently provides, and I will quote, 'extra rights to the LGBTQ people,' I am quoting, 'that need to be withdrawn.'

There are particular groups that have been discriminated against more than others obviously and that is why you have the training materials.

You just took away half the funding for the Direct Grant Program.

Look, METRA and the Chicago Transit Authority are not worried about permitting.

Respectfully, though, you talked about priorities being those most vulnerable.

We have just got to have some inclination. You have given us the lead on this that we do not care as much about public transportation.

I do not see the boldness. I think you look at what you talked about, an aging infrastructure, but who is using what?

Millennials are not buying cars. They are doing rideshares, they are riding bikes, and, thank God, they are using public transportation.

If these shelters, if these facilities need to know how to comply, just removing the existing instructions does not help.

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