The Senate voted 58-41 to confirm Ben Carson, a former neurosurgeon and presidential candidate, as the leader of HUD.
Carson, like Betsy DeVos, was nominated to head an agency where he holds no actual past job experience.
A young, Black conservative leader was fired after his op-ed slamming Trump surfaced.
The Trump administration fired Shermichael Singleton, who was one of a few black conservatives and a top aide to Ben Carson, from his post as a senior advisor this week after Trump's advisors found public writings of Singleton criticizing POTUS.