Senator Tom Carper and Dem Senate Colleagues Take a Hard Line on Trump’s Treasury Pick

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

(Steve Mnuchin) is the Forrest Gump of the financial crisis…His selection as Treasury secretary should send shivers down the spine of every American who got hit hard by the financial crisis, and is the latest sign that Donald Trump has no intention of draining the swamp and every intention of running Washington to benefit himself and his rich buddies,”

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)

“Given Mr. Mnuchin’s history of profiting off the victims of predatory lending, I look forward to asking him how his Treasury Department would work for Americans who are still waiting for the economic recovery to show up in their communities,”

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)

“President-elect Trump campaigned against big money’s power in Washington and accused Wall Street and hedge funds of ‘getting away with murder,’” Brown said in a statement, according to NBC News. “But now he has picked a hedge-fund manager whose Wall Street ties couldn’t run deeper to lead the Treasury Department, which is exactly what this election showed the American people don’t want…This isn’t draining the swamp — it’s stocking it with alligators,”

Sen. Tom Carper (D?-DE)

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