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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysbaxr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DE- VELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES AP- PROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2019 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 12:58 p.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Susan Collins (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Collins, Boozman, Capito, Hoeven, Reed, Dur- bin, Coons, and Murphy. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT STATEMENT OF HON. BEN CARSON, SECRETARY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR SUSAN M. COLLINS Senator COLLINS. The hearing will come to order. Today I am pleased to welcome the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop- ment, Dr. Ben Carson, who will testify on the President's fiscal year 2020 budget request. I am also very pleased to be joined by my good friends and the ranking member, Senator Jack Reed, the deputy leader on the Democratic side, Senator Dick Durbin, and I am sure others will be joining us as well. Because of issues on the floor, we have moved up this hearing to 1:00, and I want to thank the Secretary for accommodating a last-minute change in the schedule. In light of the time constraints that we have, I am going to greatly shorten my opening statement. I am sure that will come as a great disappointment to everybody here, but I would ask unanimous consent that my statement be printed in the record in full. Thanks to the previous 2-year budget agreement, we were able to provide $54 billion for the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the fiscal year 2019 appropriations bill. The Ad- ministration's fiscal year 2020 request for HUD does not address this cap and highlights why we cannot return to sequestration funding levels. The request, excluding FHA and Ginnie Mae receipts, is $44.1 billion, a reduction that is 18 percent below the fiscal year 2019 en- acted level. It includes provisions that were rejected as part of our deliberations last year, and I predict that many of the same pro- gram eliminations and other cost-shifting gimmicks will once again be rejected. The request, again, reflects a significant realignment of the Federal role in housing and community development. Just a few of the programs eliminated in the Administration's budget include the Community Development Block Grant, the HOME Program, VASH, the Family Unification vouchers, Youth Homelessness grants, the Public Housing Capital Fund, and the Choice Neighborhoods initiatives. Two of the programs that the Ad- (1)

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