Elizabeth Warren on Obama's Wall Street pick for Treasury: 'Enough is enough'

Elizabeth Warren on Obama&#039;s Wall Street pick for Treasury: &#039;Enough is enough&#039;

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last updated 8 January 2015

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is lashing out over President Obama's latest pick for the Treasury Department, writing in a Huffington Post op-ed that "enough is enough."

Obama last week appointed investment banker Antonio Weiss to serve as the Treasury Department's Under Secretary for Domestic Finance. Yet Warren argues that Weiss is not "qualified to oversee consumer protection and domestic regulatory function," and bemoans the "general issue of Wall Street executives dominating the Obama administration."

"Sure, big banks are important," she writes, "but running this economy for American families is a lot more important".

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Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.