Subscribe for free to the America First Report newsletter.
Lenin scholar Saule Omarova withdrew her name from consideration for the country’s top bank regulator on Tuesday after losing the support of moderate Senate Democrats.
Omarova told the White House it was “no longer tenable” to remain a nominee for comptroller of the currency, the New York Times reported . Omarova came under withering criticism from Senate Republicans over her calls to radically reform the banking system and create a New Deal-style federal agency to oversee infrastructure spending.
The withdrawal is a major setback for progressives, who touted Omarova’s criticism of big banks and the fossil fuel industry. President Joe Biden said in a statement accepting Omarova’s withdrawal that she would have been a “staunch defender” of consumers but that she “was subjected to inappropriate personal attacks that were far beyond the pale.”
Omarova’s defenders accused Republicans of waging a smear campaign against the Cornell professor by bringing up her academic history in the Soviet Union. Born in Soviet-controlled Kazakhstan, Omarova studied at Moscow State University, where she received a scholarship named after Vladimir Lenin and wrote a thesis on Karl Marx. Omarova dodged repeated requests from Senate Republicans to provide a copy of the thesis as part of the confirmation process. […]
Read the whole story at freebeacon.com
Covid variant BA.5 is spreading. It appears milder but much more contagious and evades natural immunity. Best to boost your immune system with new Z-Dtox and Z-Stack nutraceuticals from our dear friend, the late Dr. Vladimir Zelenko.