Trump reportedly will nominate Treasury official David Malpass to lead World Bank

David Malpass.
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President Trump has chosen David Malpass, a Treasury Department official, as his pick to become president of the World Bank, senior administration officials told Politico on Monday.

The announcement will be made Wednesday, one person said. Malpass is the undersecretary for international affairs, and has been critical of organizations like the World Bank, which tries to fight poverty by making low-interest loans and giving out grants, saying they have "grown larger and more intrusive" and "the challenge of refocusing them has become urgent and more difficult," Politico reports.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.