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President Barack Obama plans to nominate San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro as head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in a Cabinet reshuffling, government sources confirmed to NBC News.
Castro, 39, would replace Shaun Donovan, who has served as HUD secretary since January 2009. He is expected to become head of the Office of Management and Budget, according to The New York Times.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell, who holds that job, has been nominated by Obama as the new secretary of Health and Human Services following Kathleen Sebelius' resignation in April.
According to a government source, Castro is still being vetted, but an official announcement could come soon.
Obama is picking the San Antonio native because of his record on downtown revitalization, sources added.
Castro, who is Mexican-American, shot onto the national stage as the Democrats' keynote speaker at the 2012 convention. His twin brother, Rep. Joaqun Castro, was elected to Congress that year.
San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro speaks during the Civil Rights Summit at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library on April 8, 2014, in Austin, Texas. He is expected to be tapped as the new HUD secretary, sources said.
As mayor of the countrys seventh-largest city, he has touted it out as a forerunner in the demographic change that the country is experiencing. San Antonio is a majority-minority city and is 63 percent Latino.
Castro has heavily emphasized economic growth and education in his three terms as mayor.
Raised by a single mother, he had an early introduction to politics. His mother was an activist for the civil rights of Mexican Americans and others in the 1970s, and would take Castro and his brother to rallies and talk politics with them.
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Obama to Nominate San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro as HUD Secretary
President Barack Obama's expected nomination of San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro as secretary of Housing and Urban Development could test the 39-year-old's ability to navigate Washington ahead of 2016 elections, Texas Democrats say.
Since giving the 2012 keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, Castro's star has been on the rise, with his name often included among possible vice presidential contenders.
"This is an important step for Julian," Henry Cisneros, a HUD secretary under President Bill Clinton and a former mayor of San Antonio, told The Associated Press. "If indeed he has the capability to be what we all think he can be," Cisneros said, he can prove it by performing well at the helm of the federal housing agency.
Job performance aside, Castro's background could be his main selling point.
He and his twin brother, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, grew up on the West Side of San Antonio in a working-class Mexican-American neighborhood. They were raised by their single mother, a prominent Latino rights activist in the 1960s and 1970s, and their grandmother, who crossed the border from Mexico as a child.
If Julian Castro is nominated to preside over HUD and confirmed by the Senate, he would become one of the highest-ranking Hispanic officials in the Obama administration.
"That says a lot. He carries with him the hopes and dreams and prayers of the entire Latino population," said U.S. Rep. Pete Gallego, D-Texas.
Gallego also thinks a Castro nomination would galvanize a grassroots effort in Texas to turn the historically Republican-dominated state into a place where Democrats can compete.
While neither Castro brother speaks Spanish fluently, both became well-versed in politics at an early age when their mother, Rosie, took them to political rallies and meetings.
"She literally taught them in her lap," said Cisneros, who has known Rosie Castro since meeting her in kindergarten.
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President Barack Obama says he's heading to the Baseball Hall of Fame to stress how tourism can lead to good-paying jobs.
In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says he'll be in Cooperstown, New York, on Thursday.
Obama also is urging Congress to spend more to modernize U.S. bridges, roads and ports. He says first-class infrastructure attracts first-class jobs.
Obama warns that almost 700,000 jobs are at risk if Congress doesn't authorize more transportation dollars by the end of summer.
In the Republican address, Sen. John McCain of Arizona says reported delays in care for veterans are unconscionable. He says the Department of Veterans Affairs needs to be overhauled.
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President Barack Obama departed from his usual golf routine on Saturday by taking his clubs to an exclusive course in Northern Virginia.
Obama usually plays his standard weekend golf game at Andrews Air Force Base or at Fort Belvoir in Virginia.
But on Saturday the president and his three companions teed off instead at the elite Robert Trent Jones Golf Club on the shores of Lake Manassas in Gainesville, Virginia.
The club, where membership is by invitation only, has played host to four Presidents Cup tournaments since it was established in 1991.
The Obama foursome included his former trade representative, Ron Kirk, and Milton Carroll, the White House said. Carroll is chairman of CenterPoint Energy, a Houston-based public utility company. The third partner was identified as Joe O'Neill.
Saturday was Obama's first time on the Robert Trent Jones course, where nine of the 18 holes run adjacent to the lake.
Former President Bill Clinton played at the club a few times, according to CBS News White House reporter Mark Knoller, a respected chronicler of presidential outings.
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