Ben Carson

The Trump administration proposed cutting funding for Baltimore's central rat extermination program just prior to President Donald Trump's "rodent infested mess" rant against the city last month.

If Housing Secretary Ben Carson has his way, it will be virtually impossible to fight the unjustified policies that disproportionately bar people of color from obtaining housing.

Carson and HUD officials moved the news conference to a nearby alley after the Morning Star Baptist Church of Christ asked them to leave the premise.

HUD Secretary Ben Carson, a longtime Baltimore neurosurgeon, said President Donald Trump told him he's willing to work with Congressman Elijah Cummings to help "bring relief" to the city's poorest residents.

"It's the brain. I look at people, and I think about people at that level and not on a superficial basis," Ben Carson said when asked whether he felt "lonely" being the only African-American member of Trump's cabinet.

Can you "explain the disparity in REO rates. Do you know what an REO is?" Rep. Katie Porter (D-Cali.) asked Department of Housing and Urban Department (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson during a hearing on Tuesday. "An Oreo?" Carson responded.

"No, not an OREO. An REO. 'R-E-O,'" Representative Katie Porter told Carson.

Carson compared his HUD plan to flight attendants telling passengers to put on their oxygen masks before helping others.

Carson unveiled a proposal to help close a loophole that allows some people in the country illegally to live in government housing while poor Americans wait on lines for years.

Carson's daily schedule from 2017, obtained through a lawsuit and provided to NBC News, also shows that the Trump-appointed secretary only held senior staff meetings once a week.

"I would be interested in returning to the private sector, because I think you have just as much influence—maybe more—there," the housing and urban development secretary said.

Carson, a Detroit native, has had his name on the Ben Carson High School of Science and Medicine since the school opened in 2011.

"An agency can't just decide one day that it's not going to follow its own regulations," a plaintiff said.

The fake Obama calls President Donald Trump a "complete dipsh-t."

"He's got good intentions but the wrong execution."

"You said you would enforce these laws, you haven't, and I think that's the scandal that should get you fired," Warren said.

The Housing and Urban Development Secretary said women are "not comfortable" sharing a shelter with "somebody who had a very different anatomy."

Carson said his poor interior decorating choices caused him to defer the decision to his wife.

New documents show Steve Mnuchin took eight military flights "with no apparent justification," says government ethics advocates.

"I believe Allison has print outs of the furniture the Secretary and Mrs. Carson picked out," a HUD staffer wrote in an August 29 2017 email.

An aide later told "The New York Times" that Carson was referring to Russia.

Advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against HUD alleging the agency ignored requests about how it scrubbed LGBT guidelines for homeless shelters.

Ben Carson has come under fire for an expensive makeover of his office.

An ex-chief administrative officer claimed she was told that "$5,000 will not even buy a decent chair" after telling her superiors that was the statutory limit.

Trump's budget proposal suggests major cuts to housing spending, food stamps and could put financial strain on low-income families.

HUD Secretary Ben Carson announced $2 billion in grants for programs assisting the homeless, but Trump's proposed budget would make deep cuts to the housing department.

"He's not here to help," said one of the many housing protesters who gathered at HUD Secretary Ben Carson's meeting with local housing leaders in Chicago.

Housing and homelessness were exacerbated by natural disasters and the affordability crisis in 2017.

"The war on drugs... often dealt harshly with non-violent offenders, taking men away from their families, and disproportionately affecting minority communities," Carson said.

The president says the press could use a little faith, and the HUD secretary was there to provide it.