“I’ve worked to build a team that will help me achieve that goal,” said Fudge, noting new senior advisor on racial equity Adjoa Asamoah, who she said, “continues to utilize her experiences and expertise as a racial equity champion to develop policies and programs to help advance many of the key priorities of this administration.” Fudge and Becerra announced a joint-agency effort to increase access to COVID-19 testing and vaccines for disproportionately affected communities in the Unites States. congresswoman and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus said her department has worked diligently to “ensure that we would implement policies that would help those who need it the most.” Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge speaks to the press after taking a tour of a vaccination site at Community of Hope, a community heath center, on in Washington, DC. TheGrio caught up with Secretary Fudge after her remarks at the convention. However, NAACP’s National President and CEO, Derrick Johnson, told the crowd minutes after Fudge’s comments that “there is a squeeze” and that for the millions of Black Americans who are struggling economically, “payday time now.” Johnson said emphatically “$10,000 is not large enough.” While Fudge acknowledged that Democrats were unable to pass long hoped-for legislation like the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and student debt cancellation, she exclaimed, “but it ain’t over.”īlack advocates challenge Biden on reluctance to sign executive order for reparations commissionĬurrently, President Joe Biden is standing on his call for $10,000 of student debt forgiveness for those making under $150,000. secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), received a standing ovation before and after her address, which emphasized the Democratic Party’s message ahead of the midterm elections. Democrats, hoping to avert a shellacking by Republicans, have also been working to articulate the party’s record of what they have done since taking office in January 2021. Santiago/Getty Images)Īll the speakers at Monday’s convention urged attendees to get out to vote in November – a message that has been a theme among Democrats, both within the Biden-Harris administration and on Capitol Hill. Of the undecideds, 12 lean toward Democratic control and 9 lean toward the GOP. Dukes, president of the NAACP New York State Conference and a member of the NAACP National Board of Directors, speaks during a press conference announcing State Senator Brian Benjamin as her Lt. According to a poll from Monmouth University released Wednesday, 38 of Americans want to see the Democratic Party in charge of Congress after the November midterms while 34 prefer Republican control.
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