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On the recordDecember 3, 2019
I am very concerned that our banking regulators are following the dangerous deregulatory blueprint that the Trump Administration laid out.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Waters expresses concern over deregulation by banking regulators following Trump's policies.

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