Picked to lead the housing agency under Trump, the former Texas House member tells senators there is a housing crisis. Democrats say they want to act only after a background check.

If confirmed, the NFL veteran and former developer would run a department with a $70 billion budget and roughly 8,000 employees.

The committee vote was split along party lines, with Democrats saying that a lack of an FBI background check for Turner was a sticking point.

Scott Turner, former NFL football player, is set to appear before the Senate on Thursday morning to be confirmed as the next HUD secretary.

The Senate Banking Committee backed former NFL player Eric Scott Turner to become Housing and Urban Development secretary.

While reactions largely fall within partisan lines, both parties appear poised to work with new HUD leadership to tackle housing challenges.

There were sports analogies galore but few policy specifics during Scott Turner’s confirmation hearing on Thursday to become housing secretary.

Scott Turner, an official during the first Trump administration, said that the country was not building enough homes and that the housing department was “failing at its most basic mission.”

A former Texas legislator and NFL player, Turner has been tasked with overhauling the country's affordable housing system.

Department of Housing and Urban Development nominee Eric Scott Turner said his main goal would be to tackle the housing shortage.

U.S. senators pressed Department of Housing and Urban Development nominee Eric Scott Turner on how he would tackle housing affordability.

A federal judge temporarily blocked the president's effort to end birthright citizenship, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional" after multiple states tried to stop it in court. On Capitol Hill, though,