Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) presses Biden’s pick for currency comptroller Saule Omarova about “you used to be a member of a group called The Young Communists.”
Omarova explains, because she was born in the Soviet Union, she was part of school youth programs mandated for students.
Background from @NPR:
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Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA): “I don’t know whether to call you professor or comrade.”
Someone off-camera: “Oh my goodness.”
Dr. Saule Omarova, Biden’s comptroller currency pick: “I’m not a communist. I do not subscribe to that ideology. I could not choose where I was born.”
“Sexism, racism, pages straight out of Joe McCarthy’s 1950s Red Scare tactics … Welcome to Washington in 2021.”
— @SenWarren follows Sen. John Kennedy’s questioning of Dr. Saule Omarova, Biden’s currency comptroller nominee.
The morning after, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) has no regrets over his McCartyesque line of questioning of Dr. Saule Omarova. In fact, quite the opposite.
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