Department of Housing and Urban Development Reduction Bill

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Besides the FHA (and GNMA and oversight of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae) there's also the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity which handles those portions of the civil rights laws relating to housing and the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control which mainly deals with remediation of past use of lead-based paint, and several other minor functions relating to improving home design and construction.

If the goal is the elimination of public housing assistance, eliminating the Office of Public and Indian Housing would do the trick without disturbing the rest of the department's functions.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

BTW, I think the Office of Public and Indian Housing has already been ruled unconstitutional by Bono v. Atlasia II.  All of the ethnicity-based public services were ruled unconstitutional then, IIRC.

Close but not quite.  The court ruled that the programs administered (under chapter 8 of title 42) had an impermissible means test, but it didn't order the bureaucracy thereof be dismantled, nor did it rule on whether such programs would be constitutional absent such a test.  After all it would be quite conceivable for the Senate to revive the programs by removing the means test, it merely hasn't done so.  Thus we've been paying for bureaucrats to twiddle their thumbs until the Senate decided what to do.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Aye on the amemdment by the District 2 Senator.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Aye

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Still, are you sure?  You brought up that you thought it had been cut before, but Ernest said that it hadn't been cut, just declared unconstitutional.  Could you show me where you got that info?  Thanks

You'll note that the Bono v. Atlasia II decision didn't declare the administration of those programs unconstitutional.  After all, the Senate could choose to eliminate the means-test instead of the program.  It would make the program more expensive, I'll grant but it would negate the application of Bono II.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I'm going to vote Nay on the override, so that possibility of amending the program to meet the restrictions on such programs established by the Bono II test can be more fully discussed.