Rep. Katie Porter serves Trump's Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin his pink slip during hearing
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin appeared Wednesday in front of the House Financial Services Committee for a hearing on the handling of American taxpayer money during our current economic and public health crisis. Many Americans would like toRep. Katie Porter serves Trump's Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin his pink slip during hearing
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin appeared Wednesday in front of the House Financial Services Committee for a hearing on the handling of American taxpayer money during our current economic and public health crisis. Many Americans would like to know why Mnuchin is trying to sabotage the economy by cutting off the emergency lending programs and clawing back $455 billion into the General Fund. This move would force future Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to negotiate the already-legislated use of CARES Act money with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has tried to nicely discourage this ill-advised and illegal move. After Donald Trump and the Republican Party insisted on having no strings attached to how they blackmailed distributed funds to people and companies in dire need of financial help, Mnuchin is now attempting to attach all sorts of strings before he leaves the office in January. Democratic Rep. Katie Porter of California is no stranger to making powerful men look as craven and pedestrian as they really are. Her very simplified way of exposing the hypocrisies of not simply this administration, but the leaders of the corrupt industries leeching off of the American public, is very effective. It exposes the hypocrisies and corruption of those in power while also exposing how mediocre these (usually) men are. On Wednesday, it was Mnuchin’s integrity’s turn to get served a pink slip. Mnuchin was on the defensive quite quickly, after Rep. Porter explained the logic Mnuchin seems to be working with in his attempt to override the use of the remaining CARES Act stimulus package. But since people like Steve Mnuchin only get ahead when no one stands up to their transparently mediocre minds, they are frequently unable to handle themselves when they are called out on their activities. This is when things heated up, and this is when Rep. Porter shines. Read more