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Julián Castro is a former U.S. secretary of Housing & Urban Development. He was the youngest member of Barack Obama’s cabinet, serving from 2014 to 2017. Just before he became secretary of HUD, he was the mayor of San Antonio, elected in 2009. Castro received a bachelor’s degree in political science and communications from Stanford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out on Jan. 2, 2020.

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Julián Castro
stated on October 15, 2019 in a debate:

"Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania actually in the latest jobs data have lost jobs, not gained them."

By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2019
Julián Castro
stated on September 12, 2019 in a Democratic presidential debate:

"The difference between what I support and what you support, Vice President Biden, is that you require them to opt in (to a Medicare public option), and I would not require them to opt in. … They would automatically be enrolled. That’s a big difference. … Are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago?"

By Louis Jacobson • September 13, 2019
Julián Castro
stated on June 30, 2019 in an interview:

Says Section 1325 of U.S. immigration law was "put into place in 1929, by a segregationist."

By Madlin Mekelburg • July 12, 2019
Julián Castro
stated on April 1, 2019 in a Medium post:

Says that the George W. Bush administration in 2005 revived a long-standing law when it "decided to charge those that crossed the border with criminal violations, rather than civil ones."

By Miriam Valverde • April 5, 2019
Julián Castro
stated on March 26, 2019 in a tweet:

Says Donald Trump’s health care policies have "left millions more Americans uninsured since he took office."

By Jon Greenberg • March 28, 2019

Matt Mackowiak
stated on July 1, 2016 in a commentary in the Austin American-Statesman:

"In 2009, his first year as mayor," Julián Castro "received a seven-figure referral fee" that smells like a dirty financial gift "from notorious personal injury lawyer Mikal Watts, a major Obama donor."

By Eleanor Dearman • July 28, 2016

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