4 questions Steven Mnuchin should have to answer

Here's how Democrats should grill Trump's treasury secretary pick

Steven Mnuchin will face tough questioning today.
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President-elect Donald Trump's pick for treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, will face the Senate Finance Committee today. It promises to be a barnburner.

Democrats are up in arms over the nomination of the former Goldman Sachs banker and film producer. One liberal group called him "a self-dealing Wall Street tool." Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), scourge of high finance, condemned the pick, and held a forum yesterday for Americans foreclosed on by a bank Mnuchin ran during the financial crisis. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), another hard-charging left-winger, sits on the Senate Finance Committee itself and has asked for the FBI files on Mnuchin's old film production company.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.