Senate Banking Republicans and Democrats sparred over whether to increase funding for affordable housing or use existing funding better as they pushed Eric Scott Turner, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to take a side.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in her debut as the top Democrat on the panel, pressed Turner at Thursday’s hearing on whether he would support allocating additional federal money to build more affordable housing to start filling a housing gap of about 7 million units.
“What I do support is maximizing the budget that we do have,” Turner said.
