HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge announces resignation from Biden Cabinet

The Biden administration was shaken up recently after a Cabinet-level resignation announcement hit the headlines.

According to Axios, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge told USA Today on Monday that she plans on exiting her post in the Biden administration later this month.

Notably, Fudge marks the third member of the Biden administration to announce their resignation. The first one came in 2022, when science adviser Eric Lander resigned in the wake of workplace violations.

Last year, former Labor Secretary Marty Walsh left the Biden administration. He took a job heading up the National Hockey League Players' Association.

Interestingly, Fudge released a statement in the wake of her announcement making it clear that she's done with politics and would prefer to be a private citizen again. She seemed to express some angst in her statement.

"Don't look for me to ever be on another ballot or another appointee or anything like that,'' Fudge said, adding that she feels she's "done just about everything I could do at HUD for this administration as we go into this crazy, silly season of an election."

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Fudge also served over a decade in Congress as a Democratic lawmaker representing Ohio.

Axios noted that she previously experienced controversy during her time in the Biden administration.

In March 2021, an independent federal investigative agency concluded Fudge violated the Hatch Act by weighing in on the Ohio's 2022 Senate election.

In her exit announcement with USA Today, Fudge reiterated that the housing issue shouldn't be political.

"It is not a red or blue issue," Fudge said. "Everybody knows that it is an issue so it’s not a one-sided issue. It’s an American issue."

President Joe Biden issued a statement in the wake of Fudge's announcement and praised her for her work in the department.

"Over the past three years she has been a strong voice for expanding efforts to build generational wealth through homeownership and lowering costs and promoting fairness for America’s renters," the statement read.

Biden added, "Thanks to Secretary Fudge, we’ve helped first-time homebuyers, and we are working to cut the cost of renting. And there are more housing units under construction right now than at any time in the last 50 years."