Ben Carson

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, right, and his wife Louise Linton, hold up a sheet of new $1 bills, the first currency notes bearing his and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza's signatures, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) in Washington. The Mnuchin-Carranza notes, which are a new series of 2017, 50-subject $1 notes, will be sent to the Federal Reserve to issue into circulation. At left is BEP Director Leonard Olijar.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s people on track to be every bit as wasteful with taxpayers dollars as any previous administration

Becket Adams · March 17, 2018 1:01 pm

Housing a Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson shares a laugh with his wife Lacena "Candy" Carson as they are introduced to speak to HUD employees in Washington.

Emails show Ben, Candy Carson involved in selection of expensive office furniture

Caitlin Yilek · March 14, 2018 12:43 pm

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt (pictured above), Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke all attended private meetings with White House officials after watchdog groups and the media scrutinized their spending. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Cabinet secretaries reprimanded by White House over ethics concerns

Melissa Quinn · March 10, 2018 2:58 pm

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has denied there were any nefarious motives to an announced plan to alter HUD's mission statement. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Ben Carson: Uproar over changing HUD mission statement language is ‘nonsense’

Diana Stancy Correll · March 8, 2018 10:31 pm

President Trump threatened last week to impose a 25 percent tariff on all steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on all aluminum imports, but has since softened that stance to include potential carve-outs for countries that make trade or security concessions to the U.S. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump teases tariff announcement at Cabinet meeting amid internal drama

Sarah Bedford · March 8, 2018 5:16 pm

Afternoon Links: Ben Carson Redecorates and Harvard Bets the Farm

Jim Swift · March 1, 2018 11:06 pm

Ben Carson seems to be making an honest effort at doing away with an ugly scandal. He deserves some credit. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Ben Carson declutters his decorating debacle with new statement

Philip Wegmann · March 1, 2018 5:18 pm

"I was surprised as anyone to find out that a $31,000 dining set had been ordered," Ben Carson said. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Ben Carson wants to cancel order for $31,000 dining set for his office

Caitlin Yilek · March 1, 2018 5:16 pm

Excessive spending tends to compound. By the end, a good faith actor like Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson could be ruined by indiscretion. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

Ahead of oversight hearing and after dropping $31,000 on a dining room set, Ben Carson needs to start shopping at IKEA

Philip Wegmann · March 1, 2018 4:09 pm

President Trump previously held an opioid and drug abuse listening session on March 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House to convene opioid summit Thursday

Kelly Cohen · March 1, 2018 11:00 am

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Wednesday in response to a complaint filed with the Office of Special Counsel by Helen Foster. Foster is a HUD employee who claimed she was ousted from her position and then transferred because she refused to find a way to go above the spending cap to redecorate Carson's office. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trey Gowdy wants Ben Carson to answer for lavish spending controversy

Diana Stancy Correll · March 1, 2018 12:22 am

in 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center labelled women's rights activist, female genital mutilation victim, atheist, and ex-Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali an "anti-Muslim extremist" because she opposes Islamic extremism. (AP Photo/Shiho Fukada)

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Stop treating the Southern Poverty Law Center like it’s a respectable and responsible organization

Becket Adams · February 28, 2018 10:02 pm