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Marcia Fudge<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Friday, March 22nd<\/sup> is her final day.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge,<\/strong> a former Congressional Black Caucus Chair and a staunch advocate for the Black Press of America, has announced that she\u2019s stepping down from her role in the Biden-Harris<\/strong> administration. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fudge,<\/strong> the second Black woman to lead HUD, has been a key figure in steering the agency through housing crises triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. She has also pushed for the federal government to include the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), on behalf of the Black Press of America, in its advertising spend.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fudge\u2019s<\/strong> departure comes amid the intensifying campaign season, with President Joe Biden <\/strong>facing off against the twice-impeached and four-times indicted Republican former President Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fudge<\/strong> expressed concerns about inadequate funding. She highlighted the need for more than $70 billion to address the demand for affordable housing and repair aging public housing developments.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 President Biden<\/strong> praised Fudge\u2019s<\/strong> leadership, her dedication to rebuilding HUD, and her expanding efforts to build generational wealth through homeownership.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Her work was also praised by NNPA and the Congressional Black Caucus.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Secretary Fudge<\/strong> said she\u2019s done with politics, and looking forward to being a private citizen.<\/p>\n \n Photo<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n MARCIA FUDGE<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2026Secretary of HUD retiring.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marcia Fudge\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Friday, March 22nd is her final day. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge, a former Congressional Black Caucus Chair and a staunch advocate for the Black Press of America, has announced that she\u2019s stepping down from her role in the Biden-Harris administration. The 71-year-old Fudge disclosed that her last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133024,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133022\/revisions\/133024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe 71-year-old Fudge<\/strong> disclosed that her last day in office would be March 22. After decades of public service, she\u2019ll return to her home state of Ohio.<\/p>\n