Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American politician, author and former neurosurgeon who served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development of the 17th US and now since 2017, under the Trump Administration. Before his cabinet position, he was a candidate for President of the United States in Republican preliminary elections in 2016.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, and a graduate of Yale University and the University of Michigan Medical School, Carson has written many books about his medical career and his political stance. She was the subject of a television drama in 2009.
He was the Director of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland from 1984 until retirement in 2013. As a pioneer in neurosurgery, Carson's achievements included performing the only successful separation of conjoined twins behind the head, pioneering the first successful surgical procedure the nerves to the fetus in the womb, make the first truly successful separation of the vertical craniopagus crew type 2, develop new methods for treating brainstem tumors, and revive the hemisphereectomy technique to control seizures. He became the youngest pediatric neurosurgeon in the country at the age of 33. He has received more than 60 honorary doctorates, dozens of national service quotes, and authored more than 100 nerve surgeons publications. In 2008, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.
Carson's widely publicized speech at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast catapulted him to conservative fame for his views on social and political issues. On May 4, 2015, he announced he was running for Republican nomination in 2016 presidential election in a rally in his hometown of Detroit. In March 2016, after the Super Tuesday preliminaries, he suspended his campaign and announced he would become the new national chairperson of My Faith Votes, a group that encourages Christians to perform their duty of choice. He then supports the nomination of Donald Trump.
On March 2, 2017, Carson was confirmed by the United States Senate as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 58-41 votes.
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Early life and education
Carson was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Robert Solomon Carson, Jr. (1914-1992), a veteran of the US Army of World War II, and his wife, Sonya Carson (nÃÆ' Â © e Copeland; 1928-2017). Robert Carson was a Baptist minister, but later a Cadillac factory worker. Both his parents came from a large family in rural Georgia, and they lived in rural Tennessee when they met and got married. Carson's mother is 13 years old and his father is 28 when they marry, and after his father completes his military service, they move from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Detroit, where they live in a big house in the Indian Village neighborhood. Carson's brother, Curtis, was born in 1949, when his mother was 20 years old. In 1950, Carson's parents bought a separate 733-square-foot family home on Deacon Street in Boynton neighborhood in southwest Detroit.
The Detroit Public Schools Carson education began in 1956 with a kindergarten at Fisher School, and continued through the first, second, and first semester of the third grade, during which time he was an average student. When Carson was five years old, his mother learned that his father had a family before and not divorced his first wife. In 1959, when Carson was eight years old, his parents separated and he moved with his mother and brother to live for two years with older brother Advent and her husband at a family home in the Dorchester and Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. In Boston, Carson's mother attempted suicide, had several psychiatric hospitals for depression, and for the first time started working outside the home as a domestic worker, while Carson and his brother attended a two-grade school at the Seventh-day Adventist Berea church where two teachers taught eight classes, and most of the time spent singing songs and playing games.
In 1961, when Carson was ten years old, he moved with his mother and brother back to southwest Detroit, where they lived in a multi-residential family in a predominantly white neighborhood (Springwells Village) across the railroad from Delray neighborhood, while renting out their home on Deacon Street whose mother received in a divorce settlement. When they returned to Detroit public schools, Carson and his brother's academic performance initially lagged far behind their new classmates, essentially losing a school year by attending Adventist church school in Boston, but both increased when their mother restricted when they watch television and require them to read and write book reports in two library books per week. Carson attended the predominantly white Higgins Elementary School for the fifth and sixth grades and the white-dominated Wilson Junior High School for the seventh and the first half in the eighth grade. In 1965, when Carson was 13, he moved with his mother and brother back to their home on Deacon Street. He studied at Hunter Black Junior High which was dominated for the second half of the eighth grade. When he was eight years old, Carson had dreamed of becoming a missionary physician, but five years later he aspired to a profitable lifestyle of psychiatrists depicted on television, and his brother bought him a subscription for Psychology Today for its 13th. birthday.
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In the ninth grade, the family's financial situation has improved, her mother shocked the neighbors by paying cash to buy a new Chrysler car, and the only government aid they still rely on is the food stamp. Carson attended the black-dominated Southwestern College for grades nine through grade 12, graduating third in his class academically. In high school he played baritone horns in the band, and participated in forensics (public speaking), chess clubs, and the US Army Junior Reserve Army Training (JROTC) Training program where he reached his cadet's highest colonel. Carson served as a laboratory assistant at biology, chemistry, high school physics labs from 10th, 11th and 12th grade, respectively, and worked as a biology lab assistant at Wayne State University summer between grades 11 and 12.
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He has said that he protects white students in biological laboratories after racial riots broke out in his high school in response to Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. The Wall Street Journal confirms the riots but can not find anyone who remembers Carson protecting white students.
Higher Education
SAT Carson college admission rating puts it somewhere in the low 90th percentile, which he says produced Detroit Free Press article "Carson Gets the Highest SAT Value in Twenty Years" of all students in public schools Detroit. She wanted to attend college further than her brother at the University of Michigan. Carson said he narrowed his course selection to Harvard or Yale, but was only able to pay a $ 10 admission fee to apply to one of them. He said he decided to sign up for Yale after seeing the team from Yale beat the team from Harvard at G.E. College Bowl television show. Carson is accepted by Yale and offers a full scholarship that includes school fees, rooms and meals. Carson graduated with a B.A. in psychology from Yale in 1973 "with a fairly respectable average value, albeit far from the top of the class."
Carson did not say in his book if he received student delays during the Vietnam War. He said that his older brother, then a student at the University of Michigan, received a low number (26) in the first draft lottery in 1969 and was able to enroll in the Navy for four years instead of being drafted, while he received a high sum (333 ) in the second draft lottery in 1970. Carson said he would be prepared to accept his responsibility to fight if he had been recruited, but he "strongly identified with anti-war and revolutionary demonstrators" and enthusiastically voted for the anti-war Democratic presidential candidate. candidate George McGovern in 1972. In his book, America the Beautiful (2012), Carson said: "The Vietnam War, in retrospect, is not a noble conflict, it embarrasses our nation because both are the result and the cause. "
In the summer after high school graduation until the second year of medical school, Carson worked in various jobs: as an employee in the Ford Motor Company payroll office, the supervisor of six crew members took garbage along the highway under a federal employment program for students in the city, write in Young & amp; Rubicam Advertising, assembled the fender section and re-examined the grid windows on the assembly line at Chrysler, the crane operator at Sennett Steel, and finally the radiology technician who took X-rays. At Yale, Carson has a part-time job on campus as a student police assistant.
In his autobiography, Carson says he has been offered a scholarship to West Point. Politico reports that West Point has no record of ever seeking admission. The academy does not provide scholarships to anyone; cadets receive free education and rooms and boards in exchange for a commitment to serve in the military at least five years after graduation. Carson also said the University of Michigan had offered him a scholarship. His staff then says that the scenario described is similar to that of West Point, because he never actually signed up to enter the University of Michigan.
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Carson entered the University of Michigan Medical School in 1973, and initially struggled academically, doing poorly in the first set of his comprehensive exams whose faculty advisers recommended him out of medical school or take a reduced academic burden and take longer to complete. He continued with a regular academic burden, and his grades increased to an average in the first year of medical school. In the second year of medical school, Carson began to excel academically by rarely attending college and vice versa, studying textbooks and lecture notes from 6 am to 11 pm. Carson graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School with a M.D. in 1977, and was selected for the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
Carson was later accepted by the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine neurosurge program, where he served a year as a surgeon and five years as a neurosurgeon, finishing his last year as head of residence in 1983. He then spent a year (1983- 1984) as Senior Clerk in Neurosurgery at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital at Nedlands, suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
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Surgeons
After medical school, Carson completed his residency in neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Around this time, as Carson was later linked to Karen Hunter of Sirius XM, she was held at gunpoint at a Popeyes restaurant in Baltimore. Armstrong Williams, Carson's campaign business manager, then told Wolf Blitzer of CNN that some people in the neighborhood were chasing robbers down the street. Neither the Baltimore police nor Popeyes could corroborate Carson's story, as no police reports were made.
In 1983, at the suggestion of an Australian colleague, Carson received a senior registrar position at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (in Perth, Western Australia), spending a year there. After returning to Johns Hopkins in 1984, Carson was appointed Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery. As a surgeon, he specializes in traumatic brain injury, brain and spinal tumors, achondroplasia, neurological and congenital disorders, craniosynostosis, epilepsy, and trigeminal neuralgia. He says that his hand-eye coordination and three-dimensional reasoning make him a gifted surgeon.
While at Johns Hopkins, Carson finds in the rise of hemisferektomi, a drastic surgical procedure in which part or all of one hemisphere is removed to control severe pediatric epilepsy. Encouraged by John M. Freeman, he perfected procedures in the 1980s and did so many times.
In 1987, Carson was the principal neurosurgeon of 70 members of the surgical team that separated conjoined twins, Patrick and Benjamin Binder, who had joined behind the head (craniopagus twins); separation surgery holds a promise in part because twin boys have separate brains. The two boys enter the hospital "laughing and kicking" in preparation for surgery without the seven-month twins will never be able to crawl, walk, or even turn around. The Johns Hopkins surgical team trained surgery for weeks, practicing on two dolls secured by Velcro. Although the story continued only slightly after the return of the Binder twins to Germany seven months after surgery, the twins were reported "far from normal" two years after the procedure, with one in a vegetative state. "I'll never forget this... Why am I separating them?" their mother, Theresia Binder, said in a 1993 interview. The twins can never speak or care for themselves, and both will eventually become institutionalized institutionalized states. Patrick Binder died some time over the last decade, according to his uncle, located in the Washington Post in 2015. Binder surgery serves as a blueprint for similar twin separations, enhanced procedures over the next decade.. Carson participated in four separate high-risk twins, including the 1997 surgery on Zambia, Joseph and Banda Banda craniopagas twins, which resulted in normal neurologic outcomes. Two pairs of twins died, including Iranian twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani; Another separation results in the death of a twin and the survival of others, who are legally blind and struggling to walk.
According to the Washington Post , Binder's operation "launched the star" from Carson, who "walked out of the day's operating room into a never-so-subtle spotlight", beginning with a worldwide press conference, a name that leads to a publishing offer and a motivational speaking career. On the condition of the movie will have a premiere in Baltimore, Carson agreed to a cameo appearance as "surgeon's chief" in the 2003 comedy Farrelly brothers
In March 2013, Carson announced he would retire as a surgeon, saying he would "rather stop when I'm at the top of my game." The official retirement is on July 1, 2013.
Articles, books, business relationships, media posts
Carson has written many articles in peer-reviewed journals and six bestsellers published by Zondervan, a media and international Christian media publisher. The first book is an autobiography published in 1992. The other two are about his personal philosophy of success and what he sees as the stable influence of religion.
On August 7, 2002, Carson underwent surgery for prostate cancer. Interviewed in November next, he said the surgery had managed to remove all the cancer tissue and he was completely cured of the disease. In 2004, in a speech at the Mannatech event, Inc., he praised the company's product with the loss of its cancer symptoms. According to CNN, Carson has a "broad relationship" from 2004 to 2014 with Mannatech, a multi-level marketing company that produces dietary supplements made from substances such as aloe vera extract and larch bark. Carson gave four paid speeches at company events. He has been denied paid by Mannatech for doing anything else, saying he has become a "productive speaker" who has handled many groups. The nature of this relationship became a problem in 2015 during Carson's presidential campaign. Carson's relationship with Mannatech continued after the company paid $ 7 million in 2009 to resolve a deceptive marketing lawsuit, in Texas, for claims that its products could cure autism and cancer. His last paid speech to the company was in 2013, where he was paid $ 42,000. His image appeared on the company's website in 2014, and in the same year he praised their "glyconutrient" supplement in a special PBS that was later featured on the site.
Carson delivered a keynote speech at the Mannatech distributor convention in 2011, where he said the company has donated funds to help him get the seats coveted at Johns Hopkins Medicine: "... three years ago I had a seat awarded to me and uh, it takes $ 2.5 million to do the awarded seats and I am proud to say that part of the $ 2.5 million comes from Mannatech. "In October 2015, Carson's campaign team said" no contribution from Mannatech to Johns Hopkins " , and his statement has been "legitimate mistake on his part." Confusion He has done some fundraising for the hospital and some other chairs about it time, and he just messes things up.
During the CNBC GOP debate on October 28, 2015, Carson was asked about his relationship with Mannatech. He replied, "That's easy to answer, I have no involvement with Mannatech, total propaganda I do some speeches for them I speak to others - they get paid speeches It really does not make sense to say I have any relationship with them Do I take the product? Yes I think this is a good product. "Politifact judges Carson's rejection of any involvement as" wrong ", points to a paid speech for Mannatech and his appearance in a promotional video in which he positively reviews its products, although it does not become "official spokesman or sales associate". When CNBC moderator commented that Carson was on the Mannatech website, Carson replied that he did not give his permission. Previously, he said that he did not know the legal history of the company.
On Nov. 3, 2015, Mannatech said on his website that for compliance with federal campaign finance regulations, the company had removed all references to Carson before he announced his bid for the presidency.
In July 2013, Carson was hired by The Washington Times as a weekly opinion columnist. In October 2013, Fox News hired Carson as a contributor, to provide an analysis and commentary on Fox News Channel's daytime and primetime programs, the relationship that took place until the end of 2014.
In 2014, several House Republicans (who later formed the Freedom Caucus House) approached Carson about the possibility of him standing for the Speaker of the House in the event that the ruling Speaker John Boehner had to resign for being united between the parties. Carson refused, citing preparations for his 2016 presidential campaign. In the end, Boehner resigned in October 2015, and Paul Ryan was elected as the new Speaker.
In the form of financial disclosure, Carson and his wife reported earnings of between $ 8.9 million and $ 27 million from January 2014 to May 3, 2015, when he announced his presidential campaign. During that period, Carson received more than $ 4 million from 141 paid speeches; between $ 1.1 million and $ 6 million in book royalties; between $ 200,000 to $ 2 million as a contributor to the Washington Times and Fox News; and between $ 2 million and $ 10 million as council members of Kellogg Co. and Costco Wholesale Corp. He resigned from Costco's board in mid-2015, having served there for over 16 years. Carson is chairman of the Baltimore-based biotechnology company Vaccinogen since August 2014 until the announcement of the US president's offer in May 2015. Carson previously worked at the Vaccinogen Medical Advisory Board.
2016 presidential campaign
Background and increase political visibility
Carson, who had been registered as a Republican, changed his registration to independent in the 1990s after watching Republicans accuse President Clinton for perjury and the obstruction of justice about extramarital affairs with Monica Lewinsky. "I just see so much hypocrisy on both sides", he said. In February 2013, Carson said he was not a member of a political party.
In his book America America, he writes: "I believe it is a very good idea for doctors, scientists, engineers and others who are trained to make informed and empirical fact-finding decisions to get involved in the political arena. "
Carson was the keynote speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 7, 2013. His speech garnered Carson's attention because the event was usually political, and the speech was critical of President Barack Obama's philosophy and policies, which sat 10 feet away.
About the speech, Carson said: "I do not think it's so political... you know, I'm a doctor". Regarding President Obama's policy, he said: "There are a number of policies that I do not believe lead to the growth of our nation and do not lead to the improvement of our nation.I do not want to sit here and say all the bad policies.What I want to see more often in the country this is an open and intelligent conversation ".
Carson's sudden popularity among conservatives caused him to be invited as the keynote speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2013. He is tied for seventh place in the 2008 Washington Times CPAC Poll/CPAC with 4% of 3,000 votes cast. In the straw poll of CPAC 2014, he was in third place with 9% of the vote, behind senator Ted Cruz of Texas (with 11%) and Rand Paul of Kentucky (31%). In presidential hay polls in the 2013 Values ​​Voters Summit he and Rick Santorum surveyed 13%, with Ted Cruz winner polling 42%, and in 2014 he polled 20% to Cruz 25 victory %.
On November 4, 2014, the day of mid-term 2014, he rejoined the Republicans, saying it was "a truly pragmatic step" because he was considering running for president in 2016.
In January 2015, The Weekly Standard reported that the Carson Committee Draft has collected $ 13 million by the end of 2014, shortly after Carson performed well in a CNN/ORC poll of potential candidates in December 2014, coming second in two different versions. He polled 10% to Mitt Romney's 20%, but in the same poll as Romney was removed from the list, Carson polled 11% to Jeb Bush by 14%. The Wall Street Journal mentions that the Carson Draft Committee has a chairman in all 99 districts in Iowa, and that Carson recently led two separate Public Policy polls for the state of Pennsylvania.
Campaign announcement
On May 2, 2015, Carson proclaims that within two days, he will make a big announcement about his decision on whether to enter the Presidential Race. In an interview with Cincinnati WKRC (AM) TV station on May 3, 2015, Carson inadvertently confirmed his candidacy for presidency. The interview was also broadcast live on WPEC. The next day, May 4, 2015, at the Music Hall Performance Center for Performing Arts in his hometown of Detroit, he officially announced his nomination for Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. The announcement speech was preceded by a choir singing "Lose Yourself" with Carson sitting in the audience. After the song, Carson climbed onto the stage and announced his candidacy with his hungry speech for a wealth of life story, at one point stated: "I remember when our favorite drug dealer was killed."
Spike in poll
In October 2015, Super PAC endorsed Carson, the 2016 Committee (formerly the Committee Committee of Carson) announced it has received donations in most of the $ 100 increase from over 200 small businesses across the country for one week. Fox Business reports that "Carson's external status is developing its small business support base." Ben Walters, a fundraiser for the 2016 Committee expressed optimism about Carson's small business support base: "It's incredible the diversity of businesses we bring in. We see everything from doctors' offices and people in the health professions to motorcycle and bed and breakfast workshops. "
In October, it was noted that Carson's political career was "unlikely" to have soared in polls and fundraising, while he continued to participate in the nationally televised Republican debate.
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The campaign brought great attention to Carson's past. CBS News describes Carson's narrative of "overcoming the impossible possibility of a child growing up in single poor parent households to achieve international excellence as a pediatric neurosurgeon" as "an important part of his presidential campaign." The Wall Street Journal says the narrative is under "the watchful eye of presidential politics, where rivals and media hunt for jewelry and disappearance that can paralyze a campaign." CNN characterizes the core narrative as "an act of violence as an angry youth," followed by a spiritual enlightenment that transforms Carson into the "structured figure" he now describes. The media challenge to a number of Carson statements included the alleged inconsistency between documented facts and certain statements in his autobiography <
In November 2015, Carson's campaign aired a 60-second TV commercial in which excerpts from Carson's stubborn speech were interrupted by rap artists named Aspiring Mogul. They spent $ 150,000 on advertising, which aired in Atlanta, Detroit, and Miami. Carson defended the ad, saying "Well, there are people in the campaign who feel it's a good way to do something... I support them in doing that, but I might take a slightly different approach." Later, he said the ad was done unbeknownst to him, that "it was done by people who did not have the concept of the black community and what they did", and that he was "horrified" by him.
Carson's statements about foreign policy are doubtful about his familiarity with the domain. The New York Times is reported in 2015, "Carson has admitted being a new person abroad". Regarding the Ukrainian crisis, Carson will send arms to Ukraine to help in his fight against pro-Russian rebels. He also believes the Baltic countries should be "involved in NATO" (apparently unaware that they are members of NATO).
In Republican debate in November 2015, Carson declared his intention to make ISIS "look like a loser" because he would "destroy their caliphate". Carson also advocated capturing a "big energy field" outside Anbar, Iraq, which he said could be achieved "easily". Regarding the Middle East, he also claims that "the Chinese are there"; while on the contrary, The Guardian reported that "no member of the Chinese armed forces is known currently involved in the conflict in the Middle East".
Carson said that he was not against the Palestinian state, but questioned why it was necessary "to be within Israeli boundaries [...] Is that necessary, or can you slip that area into Egypt?"
Withdrawal from campaign
On March 2, following the Super Tuesday election, 2016, Carson announced that he "did not see the political path forward" and would not attend the next Republican debate in Detroit. He said, "This grassroots movement in the name of 'Our People' will continue," indicating that he will provide more details this weekend. He suspended his campaign on March 4 and announced he would become the new national chairman of My Faith Votes, a group that encourages Christians to carry out their civil obligations to vote.
In total, the Ben Carson campaign spent $ 58 million. However, most of the money goes to political consultants and raises funds rather than advertising. Carson questioned whether his campaign was sabotaged economically from within.
More activities during 2016 selection
On March 11, 2016, a week after Carson ended his presidential campaign, he endorsed Trump, calling him part of "the voice of the people to be heard." Carson's next comment that the Americans only have to maintain Trump for four years if he is not a good president attracts criticism and he admits he would prefer other candidates even though Trump thinks he has the best chance of winning the election. On the other hand, at a press conference Carson stated that Trump has a "brain" side.
On April 16, Carson spoke with pleasure about the possibility of abolishing the Electoral College, believing that he ignored the "will of the people". Later that month, on April 25, Carson declared his opposition to Harriet Tubman replacing Andrew Jackson on a $ 20 bill, a day after naming the replacement of "political wisdom", although he showed interest in Tubman having another respect. In late April, Carson wrote a letter to the Republican Party of Nevada, asking the two delegates he won in Nevada to be released and free to support whomever they wanted.
On May 4, after Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination, he signaled that Carson would be among those who would elect his vice-president. On the same day, Carson in an interview expressed his interest in Ted Cruz as US Attorney General, a position that Carson said would allow Cruz to prosecute Hillary Clinton, and later as a Supreme Court nominee of the Trump administration. On May 6, Carson said in an interview that Trump would consider a Democrat as his spouse, contrary to Trump who insists he will not do it. A Carson spokesman later said Carson expected Trump to elect a Republican. Carson was said by assistant Armstrong Williams in a May 10 interview to withdraw from Trump's investigation team, although the campaign insists he is still involved. Later that month, Carson revealed the list of vice presidential candidates in an interview with the Washington Post. On May 16, Carson said that the media could not withstand the opinion of the news and quoted Walter Cronkite as a fair journalist who in his words was a "left-wing radical."
During the Republican National Convention, Carson emerged alongside former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to support the pro-Donald Trump America PAC at an event in Cleveland.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Nomination and confirmation
After Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election, Carson joined the Trump transition team as Vice Chairman. Carson was also offered a cabinet position in government. He refused, partly for lack of experience, with an aide who stated, "The last thing he wants to do is take a position that can paralyze the presidency." Although reported that his position for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Carson's business manager has denied this, stating, "Dr. Carson never offered a particular position, but it was open to him." He was finally offered the position of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, which he received.
On December 5, 2016, Trump announced that he would nominate Carson to the position of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. During the confirmation process, Carson was researched by some housing supporters for what they regarded as a lack of relevant experience, and because he has become one of the most violent critics of the role of HUD in enforcing anti-discrimination laws. During the confirmation hearing, Carson "will not be certain to avoid directing tax dollars to the Trump business."
On January 24, 2017, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs voted unanimously to approve his candidacy. On March 2, 2017, Carson was confirmed by the Senate by 58-41 votes.
Tenure
On March 6, his first day as secretary, while dealing with Housing and Urban Development (HUD) employees, Carson saluted the work ethic of immigrants, and as long as his comments appeared to compare slaves with volunteer immigrants. A HUD spokesman said that no one thinks Carson "likens voluntary immigration to forced slavery." In the same speech, Carson inaccurately said that the human brain "is unable to forget and can be electrically stimulated into perfect memory."
Under the federal budget proposed by Trump in 2017, the HUD budget for the fiscal year 2018 will be cut by $ 6.2 billion (13%) and Community Development Fund, a program Carson praised on its way to Detroit as HUD secretary, will be abolished. Carson issued a statement in favor of the proposed cuts. Carson suggested that federal funds for housing in Detroit could be part of the expected infrastructure bill.
In April 2017, speaking in Washington at the National Low-Income Housing Coalition conference, Carson said that housing funding would be included in the upcoming infrastructure bill from the Trump administration.
In July 2017, during his keynote speech at the annual LeadingAge Florida convention, Carson expressed his concern about "poor seniors" and reported that the Department of Housing and Urban Development has stepped up public housing programs for unspecified parents.
In the summer of 2017, Carson allowed his son, a Baltimore businessman, Ben Carson Jr., to participate in organizing a HUD "listening tour" in Baltimore. The internal document obtained by the Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act indicates that the younger Carson "placed the people he invited in touch with his father's deputy, joined the agency staff on an official conference call about the tour listen and copy his wife in the associated email exchange. "The involvement of the child encourages HUD staff to express their concerns; deputy general department adviser for writing operations in a memorandum "that this gives the impression that the Secretary may use his position for his son's private advantage." Carson's wife, son, and son-in-law also attended an official meeting. In February 2018, the HUD inspector general's office confirmed that they were looking for the role the Carson family played in the department.
Office furniture
Carson received criticism for spending up to $ 31,000 in a set meal in his office by the end of 2017. It was discovered after Helen Foster, a career HUD official, filed a complaint stating that he was demoted because he refused to spend more than the legal limit of $ 5,000 for office redecorations. Carson and his spokesman said he had little or no involvement in the purchase of cutlery; then, email communication revealed that Carson and his wife chose the set meal. On March 20, 2018, Carson testified before the US House Committee on Appropriations that he had "fired" himself from the decision to buy a $ 31,000 set of cutlery and "leave it to my wife, you know, to choose something."
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In 1994, Carson and his wife embarked on the Carson Scholars Fund, which provided scholarships to students in grades 4-11 for "academic excellence and humanitarian quality".
Carson Scholars Fund scholars receive a $ 1,000 scholarship for their college education. It has provided 6,700 scholarships. In recognition of his work with the Carson Scholars Fund and other charitable giving throughout his life, Carson was awarded the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership in 2005.
Personal life
Carson and his wife, Lacena "Candy" Rustin, met in 1971 as a student at Yale University. They married in 1975 and lived in Howard County, Maryland, before moving in 2001 to West Friendship, Maryland, where they purchased a 48-hectare property. Together, the couple has three sons (Rhoeyce, Benjamin Jr., and Murray), as well as several grandchildren. Their youngest son, Murray, was born in Perth, Australia, while Carson made a residency there.
In 2013, Carson, his wife, and Carson's mother moved to West Palm Beach, Florida.
Religion
Carson and his wife are members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA). Carson was baptized at the Burns Seventh-day Adventist Church on the east side of Detroit. A few years later, he told the pastor at a church he attended in Inkster, Michigan that he had not fully understood his first baptism and wanted to be baptized again, so he did. He has served as a local elder and Sabbath School teacher in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. His mother was a devout Seventh-day Adventist. Although Carson is an Adventist, the church has officially warned church employees to remain politically neutral.
In keeping with the Seventh-day Adventist faith, Carson announced in 2014 his conviction, "that the United States will play a big part" in the coming apocalypse. He went on to say, "I hope at that moment I'm not there anymore."
In an interview with Katie Couric, Carson said that Jesus Christ came to Earth to redeem the world through the atoning sacrifice and that all people are sinners and need redemption.
Carson has claimed he did not believe in hell as some Christians understood: "You know, I see God as a very loving individual, and why he torture a person forever who has only 60 or 70 or 80 years of life? Even if they are evil. Even if they were only evil for 80 years? ". This is entirely in line with the teachings of Advent, which promotes annihilationism.
Carson supports Seventh-day Adventist theology, which includes belief in the literal reading of the first chapters of Genesis. In an interview in 2013 with Carson's Adventist News Network, Carson said, "You know, I'm proud of the fact that I believe what God says, and I have said over and over that I will defend it before anyone. If they want to criticize the fact that I believe in the literal creation of six days, let's do it because I'm going to pinch all kinds of holes in what they believe. "Carson's adventism was raised as a problem by his rival Donald Trump.Some Adventists argue that Carson's political position on arms rights and religious freedom runs counter to Adventist teachings that support nonviolence, pacifism and the separation of church and state.
Vegetarianism
Consistent with the practice of many Adventists, Carson is a lacto-ovo vegetarian (he will eat foods containing milk, eggs, or cheese, and sometimes, poultry). He has said that the main reason for being vegetarian is health problems, including avoiding parasites and heart disease, and he emphasizes the environmental benefits of vegetarianism. His transition became easier because he had eaten a bit of meat for aesthetic reasons as a child, and he was ready to adopt his wife's vegetarian lifestyle because she was doing a lot of cooking in their household. Speaking in 1990, he said that with the increasing availability of meat substitutes, "It may take 20 years, but eventually there will be no more reason for most people to eat meat, and animals will breathe a sigh of relief." To avoid causing others to feel uncomfortable, she is willing to occasionally eat chicken or turkey, although she finds eating pork very unpleasant.
Awards and honors
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