Carson Didn’t Find HUD Errors
Q: Did Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson find over $500 billion in accounting errors while auditing HUD’s financial statements?
A: No. The errors were discovered and published by HUD’s independent inspector general before Carson became secretary.
FULL QUESTION
Is it true that Ben Carson has found a half trillion dollar error from the Obama administration since he has taken office?
FULL ANSWER
Readers have repeatedly asked us if Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson initiated an audit of HUD’s financial statements and found more than $500 billion in accounting errors made by the Obama administration.
That may be by the conservative Daily Wire, and websites, wrongly credited Carson with uncovering the accounting mistakes.
