--- title: Ben Carson HUD Confirmation Hearing: Watch Live description: Ben Carson will face questions from the Senate Banking Committee Thursday morning to answer questions on his nomination as HUD Secretary canonical: https://time.com/4632725/ben-carson-donald-trump-hud-confirmation-hearing/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-12T14:18:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-07T07:13:23.903Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: Ben Carson's Confirmation Hearing to Be Trump's HUD Secretary og:description: Carson is expected to highlight his time growing up in poverty og:url: https://time.com/4632725/ben-carson-donald-trump-hud-confirmation-hearing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53790140ba8668ea/6988b549cd1bbabd99703926/ben-carson-hud-hearing.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4200 og:image:height: 2363 og:image:alt: ben carson HUD hearing og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: Ben Carson's Confirmation Hearing to Be Trump's HUD Secretary twitter:description: Carson is expected to highlight his time growing up in poverty twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53790140ba8668ea/6988b549cd1bbabd99703926/ben-carson-hud-hearing.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: Ben Carson's Confirmation Hearing to Be Donald Trump's HUD Secretary > Sponsored content. 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Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson defended his experience and credentials to serve as the nation’s new housing secretary Thursday, turning to his life story to show that he understands the needs of the country’s most vulnerable._  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Jan 12, 2017 2:18 PM UTC Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson defended his experience and credentials to serve as the nation’s new housing secretary Thursday, turning to his life story to show that he understands the needs of the country’s most vulnerable.  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Jan 12, 2017 2:18 PM UTC [Ben Carson](http://time.com/4581034/donald-trump-ben-carson-hud-secretary/) will appear before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Thursday morning to face questions related to his nomination as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon and former GOP presidential candidate, has no experience in housing and urban policy and is expected to focus on stories of his impoverished upbringing in inner city Detroit. “I understand housing insecurity—we were forced to move from Detroit to Boston to live with relatives because she couldn’t afford our house,” Carson will say, according to [testimony released before the hearing](http://www.banking.senate.gov/public/%5Fcache/files/81838fb8-b48d-4714-b5af-6d5714c49f2f/4643FEF719ECD05E9ABB6E26F4578B67.011217-carson-testimony.pdf). The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Watch live above. ## Transcript [00:00] There are a large number of people spending 30 to [00:02] 50 % of their income on housing. That's an [00:06] unacceptable number. So what we have to do is either [00:09] raise their income or decrease the cost the housing. [00:14] I think both of those are areas that we need to work [00:18] upon. My concern is whether or not Among [00:22] the billions of dollars that you will be responsible for [00:25] handing out and grants and loans. Can you just assure [00:29] us that not one dollar will [00:33] go to benefit either the President- elect or his [00:37] family. It will not be my intention to do anything [00:42] to benefit Any, any American. I understand that. [00:46] It's for all Americans. Everything that we do. But do I [00:49] take that to mean that you may manage programs that [00:53] will significantly benefit the President Elect? You can [00:57] take it to mean that I will manage things in a way that [01:00] benefits the American people, that is going to be the [01:03] goal. To the best, you understand that. If [01:07] there happens to be an extraordinarily good program [01:12] that's working for millions of people, And it turns out [01:16] that someone that you're targeting is going to gain [01:20] $ 10 from it, am I gonna to say, no, the rest of you [01:23] Americans can't have it? I think logic and common [01:26] sense probably would be the best way. Although, we [01:30] do have a problem here, and I do appreciate your [01:32] good faith in this, and I do Dr. Carson. The problem is [01:36] that you can't assure us that HUD money, not of ten [01:40] dollar varieties, but of multimillion dollar varieties, will [01:44] not end up in the President- Elect's pockets and the [01:48] reason you can't assure us of that is because the [01:52] President- Elect is hiding his families business interests [01:56] from you, from me From the rest of America. I support [02:01] creating an environment that encourages [02:05] entrepreneurial risk taking and capital investment. [02:08] Which are the engines that drove America from no [02:11] place to the pinnacle of the world in record time. So, I [02:15] guess that means you don't support the overtime rule [02:17] or the minimum wage? It means exactly [02:21] that my philosophy is that we can increase people's [02:25] minimum wages by increasing opportunities for them [02:29] and creating an environment where those opportunities [02:31] exist rather than artificially trying to change it. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4632725/ben-carson-donald-trump-hud-confirmation-hearing/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4632725/ben-carson-donald-trump-hud-confirmation-hearing/"},"headline":"Watch Live: Ben Carson's Confirmation Hearing to Be Donald Trump's HUD Secretary","datePublished":"2017-01-12T14:18:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-07T07:13:23.903Z","description":"Carson is expected to highlight his time growing up in poverty","url":"https://time.com/4632725/ben-carson-donald-trump-hud-confirmation-hearing/","keywords":["Senate","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53790140ba8668ea/6988b549cd1bbabd99703926/ben-carson-hud-hearing.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53790140ba8668ea/6988b549cd1bbabd99703926/ben-carson-hud-hearing.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ben carson HUD hearing","caption":"ben carson HUD hearing","creditText":"Albin Lohr-Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/senate/","name":"Senate"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4632725/ben-carson-donald-trump-hud-confirmation-hearing/","name":"Watch Live: Ben Carson's Confirmation Hearing to Be Donald Trump's HUD Secretary"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Ben Carson Defends His Credentials As Housing Secretary","description":"Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson defended his experience and credentials to serve as the nation’s new housing secretary Thursday, turning to his life story to show that he understands the needs of the country’s most vulnerable.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/GRBLDhKR/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-01-12T20:09:24.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/GRBLDhKR.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4632725/ben-carson-donald-trump-hud-confirmation-hearing/","duration":"PT2M34S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4632725/ben-carson-donald-trump-hud-confirmation-hearing/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```