This gifted pediatric neurosurgeon found his way from poverty to prosperity, yet has no experience relevant to HUD’s mission: to ensure a safe home for every American. His potential to destroy HUD and its mission is represented using torn trash and found objects in this portrait.
 
Per Perplexity, Ben Carson was a mixed-to-weakly successful HUD secretary from 2017 to 2021. He helped advance several administrative and housing-finance programs, but he did not achieve a major transformation in affordable housing, homelessness, public housing, or urban development—and his tenure drew substantial criticism from housing advocates and some career HUD staff.
 
Materials: Food wrappers and labels, plastic, stickers, glass, rusty metal, neoprene, battery, hang tag, pencil, paper, hot glue, and PVA glue
 
Size: 15 X 19.5 inches
Gallery-wrapped and ready to hang
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