Melvin Watt: “I took a lot of heat for reinstating it. But it was a statutory…”

On the recordMay 10, 2017

I took a lot of heat for reinstating it. But it was a statutory mandate, and I did not see a reason not to follow the statute.

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Watt defends his decision to reinstate the Housing Trust Fund, citing statutory obligations.

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