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Trump picks former NFL player, White House aide Scott Turner to lead housing and urban development

President-elect Donald Trump said Friday he will nominate former NFL player and White House aide Scott Turner to be his secretary of housing and urban development.Related video above: Trump names Linda McMahon to lead Department of EducationTurner ran the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council during Trump’s first term in office.Trump, in a statement, credited Turner, the highest-ranking Black person he’s yet selected for his administration, with “helping to lead an Unprecedented Effort that Transformed our Country’s most distressed communities.”

WASHINGTON —

President-elect Donald Trump said Friday he will nominate former NFL player and White House aide Scott Turner to be his secretary of housing and urban development.

Related video above: Trump names Linda McMahon to lead Department of Education

Turner ran the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council during Trump’s first term in office.

Trump, in a statement, credited Turner, the highest-ranking Black person he’s yet selected for his administration, with “helping to lead an Unprecedented Effort that Transformed our Country’s most distressed communities.”