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Senate Banking Committee reports six Trump administration nominees to full Senate amid sharp criticism from Ranking Member Warren
Summary
The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee voted largely along party lines to report six administration nominees favorably to the full Senate. Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren delivered a critical opening statement raising economic and regulatory concerns about several nominees.
The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee voted to report six administration nominees to the full Senate after an executive session during which Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren sharply criticized the administration and the nominees.
Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren, the committee's senior Democrat, opened the meeting with a broad critique of the administration's economic and regulatory agenda. "President Trump is pushing our economy off a cliff," Warren said, and she warned that the nominees are likely to support policies she argued would weaken consumer protections and make housing and other costs harder for families to afford. "I won't vote to confirm these administration officials when President Trump is strangling our economy to raise prices for families while he lines his own pockets," Warren said.
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