Trump Names Acting Hud Secretary As Turner Awaits Confirmation

Among a flurry of executive orders he signed upon his return to the presidency on Monday, President Donald Trump has appointed several transitional leaders as much of his cabinet awaits confirmation by the Senate. Among those is a new acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Trump appointed career HUD official Matthew Ammon to serve in the transitional role following the exit of Biden administration acting head Adrianne Todman, who had served in the post on an acting basis since the resignation of Marcia Fudge last year.

Ammon previously served as acting HUD secretary in the earliest days of the Biden administration, appointed in the same role by then-President Joe Biden upon the exit of the first Trump administration from office.

Ammon has worked at HUD for nearly 30 years in several senior positions, including as the acting general deputy assistant secretary in HUD’s office of community planning and development.

He previously served prior to and during the Biden administration as director of the Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes, and has helped to develop programs designed to eliminate childhood lead poisoning and to address housing conditions that threaten residents’ health.

Trump’s nominee to serve as full-time HUD secretary, Scott Turner, had a confirmation hearing in the Senate last week. The calendar for the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs does not yet include a vote for Turner’s confirmation out of the committee, at which point his nomination would go to the floor of the full Senate for a vote.

As of right now, the only permanent member of Trump’s cabinet that has received full Senate confirmation is Marco Rubio, who succeeds the Biden administration’s Antony Blinken as secretary of state, the nation’s foremost diplomat.

As of Tuesday morning, C-SPAN reports that the Senate’s Finance Committee has approved the nomination of Scott Bessent to serve as Treasury secretary, which is likely to go to the full Senate for a confirmation vote in the coming days. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said from the Senate floor that the body will first prioritize national security-related appointments.

“In the coming days, the Senate will hold additional votes on the president’s national security team,” Thune said according to C-SPAN via social media platform X. “We expect a vote on the nomination of John Ratcliffe to be director of the CIA later today.”