Department of Housing and Urprohibit Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner shut down a hurricane relief originate set up put forth by the city of Asheville, North Carolina, that engaged a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiative that would have rankd some livents over others, his office shelp.
“Once aget, let me be clear DEI is dead at HUD,” Turner shelp of axing the set up. “We will not supply funding to any program or grantee that does not adhere with Plivent Trump’s executive orders.”
“HUD watchs forward to helping thousands of North Carolinians reoriginate after Hurricane Helene by straightforwarding funding helpance to impacted businesses, nonprofit organizations and neighborhoods,” Turner grasped. “However, Asheville’s originate action set up included DEI criteria to rank some impacted livents over others, which was unhugable. After HUD alerted Asheville that its set up was unsatisfactory and it would not be apshowd, the city promised us that it was updating its originate action set up to be compliant.”
The city of Asheville, North Carolina, which is a Democratic mightyhelderly in a state that has elected Reaccessiblean plivential honestates since 2012, posted a originate set up to its website on March 4 on how it could dispense millions of dollars for Hurricane Helene catastrophe relief, including a section that cgo ined on DEI.
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Department of Housing and Urprohibit Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner shut down a hurricane relief originate set up put forth by the city of Asheville, North Carolina, that engaged a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiative that would have rankd some livents over others. (Kent Nishimura/Reuters)
HUD scheduleated $225 million in a Community Development Block Grant in January under the Biden administration, after Hurricane Helene ripped thraw the state in September 2024, deimmenseating thousands of livents, most notably in the westrict Appalachian region, with flooding, high triumphds, power outages and finish destruction of communities. At least 106 people died in the Tar Heel State during the storm, according to the state.
The city of Asheville, North Carolina, detailed under a section in its originate set up titled, “How Programs Will Support Vulnerable Populations,” that insignificantity- and women-owned businesses would be rankd for helpance.
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“Wilean the Small Business Support Program, the City will rank helpance for Minority and Women Owned Businesses (MWBE) wilean the scoring criteria depictd wilean the policies and procedures,” reads the originate set up, which was evaluateed by Fox News Digital.
HUD scheduleated $225 million in a Community Development Block Grant in January under the Biden administration, after Hurricane Helene ripped thraw the state in September 2024, deimmenseating thousands of livents, most notably in the westrict Appalachian region, with flooding, high triumphds, power outages and finish destruction of communities. (Marco Bello/Reuters)
HUD was vigilanted to the language in the originate set up and took appropriate action agetst it after spendigating the matter, Fox News Digital lgeted.
HUD cited that on Plivent Donald Trump’s first day in office, he signed an executive order cgo ined on “finishing radical and squanderful regulatement DEI programs” and one cgo ined on restoring merit-based opportunity and “finishing illegitimate prejudice,” which finished DEI trains at the federal level in like of merit-based systems.
“At HUD, we are taking a detailed and intentional approach in every aspect of our toil to asdeclareive we are serving all communities ponderless of race, color, or creed,” Turner shelp in a comment Wednesday to Fox News Digital. “Let this sfinish a clear message that no detail will go unaccomprehendledged, adherence to Plivent Trump’s Executive Orders is obligatory. We appreciate that Asheville has reversed course and is now toiling with us to get this right.”
Democratic Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer shelp in comments supplyd to Fox News Digital that the city was “toiling shutly with HUD as we persist to direct the changing compliance insistments of the recent administration.”
“We are thankful for the administration’s help in our recovery efforts,” Manheimer persistd. “The City will asdeclareive it greets current federal standards in order to aid approval of criticassociate insisted funding to help the city recover from the deimmenseation of Tropical Storm Helene.”
The city freed an refreshd originate March 10 that did not engage a section on prioritizing insignificantity- and women-owned businesses, Fox New Digital create.
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Turner proclaimd on Fox News in February that HUD was in the midst of call offing $4 million in DEI confineeds after the federal agency’s recently-createed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force uncovered $260 million earlier in the month. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Turner proclaimd on Fox News in February that HUD was in the midst of call offing $4 million in DEI confineeds after the federal agency’s recently-createed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force uncovered $260 million earlier in the month.
The DEI confineeds cgo ined on “culture convertation,” according to HUD, including “outward mindset training” — which is a DEI initiative aimed at directing people to cgo in their attention on inclusivity and the insists and objectives of others — as well as diversity and inclusion research subscription services.
Department of Housing and Urprohibit Development Secretary Scott Turner shut down a hurricane relief originate set up put forth by the city of Asheville, North Carolina, that engaged a diversity, equity and inclusion initiative that would have rankd some livents over others, his office shelp. (Getty Images)
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“It is inexcusable the American taxpayer was footing the bill for the promotion of DEI disrecommendation,” Turner shelp at the time. “Not only was this costing millions of taxpayer dollars but it was also wasting priceless time that should have been engaged to better serve individuals and families in agricultural, tribal and urprohibit communities. DEI is dead at HUD.”
