Rep. Maxine Waters, the chair of the House Financial Services Committee, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin squabbled on Tuesday over his schedule.
Rep. Maxine Waters, the chair of the House Financial Services Committee, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin squabbled on Tuesday, with Mnuchin going so far as to threaten to not testify before the committee again if he was not allowed to leave.
div > div.group > p:first-child"> "If you'd wish to keep me here so I don't have my important meeting and continue to grill me then we can do that, I will cancel my meeting and I will not be back here," Mnuchin said."I will be very clear, if that's the way you'd like to have this relationship." Mnuchin appeared before the Congressional hearing, where House Democrats questioned him about when he will respond to requests for access to the tax returns of President Donald Trump. As the testimony ran past three hours long, Mnuchin asked to leave to attend a meeting with a foreign dignitary and clashed with Waters. She repeated that he was free to leave and fired back when Mnuchin said she should dismiss the meeting and"take the gavel and bang it."CEOs of seven of the largest U.S.
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