Ranking Member Waters Leads 122 Lawmakers in Demanding Transparency on HUD and DOGE
Mar 10, 2025
On March 3rd, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee, led 122 House Democrats in delivering a letter to HUD Secretary Scott Turner demanding transparency regarding recent staff terminations, funding freezes, and the involvement of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Elon Musk.
In the letter, the lawmakers emphasized the importance of HUD’s role in addressing the “one of the worst housing and homelessness crises in history,” and that “plans to terminate HUD staff across the country, freeze HUD funding (which makes up less than 1% of all federal spending), as well as the decision to ‘[go] after’ the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule and halt fair housing enforcement efforts under the Equal Access Rule, are cause for deep concern about the future of fair and affordable housing in this great nation.”
The letter also highlighted potential conflicts of interest, noting that DOGE personnel assigned to HUD, including Scott Langmack and Michael Mirski, have ties to industries that could benefit from the weakening of federal housing protections. Langmack is the COO of Kunkun, a property technology startup with a potential conflict of interest in “Fair Housing Act” compliance enforced by HUD, while Mirski manages TCC Asset Management LLC, an unregistered private fund in manufactured housing communities.
The full list of signers includes: Representatives Adams (D-NC), Amo (D-RI), Ansari (D-NV), Balint (D-VT), Barragán (D-CA), Beatty (D-OH), Bishop (D-GA), Bonamici (D-OR), Brownley (D-CA), Brown (D-OH), Bynum (D-OR), Carbajal (D-CA), Carson (D-IN), Carter (D-LA), Casar (D-TX), Casten (D-IL), Castor (D-FL), Castro (D-TX), Cisneros (D-CA), Clarke (D-NY), Cleaver (D-MO), Cohen (D-TN), Costa (D-CA), Crow (D-CO), Davis (D-IL), Dean (D-PA), DeGette (D-CO), DeSaulnier (D-CA), Dexter (D-OR), Doggett (D-TX), Escobar (D-TX), Evans (D-PA), Fields (D-CA), Figures (D-AL), Foster (D-IL), Frost (D-FL), García (D-IL), Garamendi (D-CA), Garcia (D-CA), Garcia (D-TX), Goldman (D-NY), Gomez (D-CA), Gonzalez (D-TX), Goodlander (D-PA), Gottheimer (D-NJ), Green (D-TX), Grijalva (D-AZ), Hernández (D-IL), Himes (D-CT), Horsford (D-NV), Hoyle (D-OR), Jackson (D-IL), Jacobs (D-NY), Jayapal (D-WA), Jeffries (D-NY), Johnson (D-GA), Jayapal (D-WA), Johnson (D-TX), Keating (D-MA), Kelly (D-IL), Khanna (D-CA), Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Landsman (D-OH), Larsen (D-WA), Lee (D-PA), Leger Fernandez (D-NM), Liccardo (D-CA), Lynch (D-MA), Magaziner (D-RI), McBride (D-DE), McClellan (D-VA), McCollum (D-MN), McGarvey (D-KY), McGovern (D-MA), McIver (D-NC), Meeks (D-NY), Menendez (D-NJ), Meng (D-NY), Moore (D-WI), Moulton (D-MA), Mullin (D-OK), Nadler (D-NY), Neguse (D-CO), Norton (D-DC), Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Omar (D-MN), Pallone (D-NJ), Peters (D-CA), Pettersen (D-CO), Pingree (D-ME), Pocan (D-WI), Pressley (D-MA), Ramirez (D-IL), Randall (D-CO), Raskin (D-MD), Ross (D-NC), Sánchez (D-CA), Scanlon (D-PA), Schakowsky (D-IL), Scott (D-GA), Scott (D-VA), Sewell (D-AL), Sherman (D-CA), Simon (D-NC), Smith (D-WA), Stansbury (D-NM), Subramanyam (D-VA), Takano (D-CA), Thanedar (D-MI), Thompson (D-MS), Titus (D-NV), Tlaib (D-MI), Tokuda (D-HI), Tonko (D-NY), Torres (D-CA), Torres (D-NY), Turner (D-OH), Underwood (D-IL), Vargas (D-CA), Velázquez (D-NY), Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Williams (D-GA), Wilson (D-FL).
Read the letter here: https://tinyurl.com/2rerxm4u.
Read Ranking Member Waters’ press release here: https://tinyurl.com/vs6rj2z4.