Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the coronavirus has been the great revealer in our country. This crisis, of course, isn't happening in a vacuum. It is layered atop a system that already was not working for a whole lot of people and that had centuries of racism built into it. Few places is that more true than in our housing system. When it comes to housing, like so many problems in this country, we have a President who makes things worse, not better. For 4 years now, President Trump and his administration have systematically undermined fair housing. I would add, since the Senator from Utah is in the Presiding Officer's chair, that I would do a shout-out for his father and what he did as Secretary of HUD in the late sixties, early seventies in trying to move this country forward. That was obviously not in my prepared remarks. I didn't know that you would be presiding, but thank you. The Trump agenda--very different from the agenda in the Romney HUD administration--turned back the clock on civil rights protections that leave communities of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ people behind. This week I released a comprehensive report from the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, detailing the ways that President Trump has made inequality and segregation in housing worse and the work we have to do to undo the damage. More than 50 years after Congress passed the Fair Housing Act, access to housing remains not just unequal but separate and unequal.…”