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Biden's nominee to oversee banks is a 'neo-socialist': John Kennedy

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., expanded Friday on his contentious interplay with Comptroller of the Forex nomineee Saule Omarova over her past views, at one level announcing he wasn’t certain whether to call her “professor or comrade,” telling “The US’s Newsroom” that she became as soon as successfully a “neo-socialist.”

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SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It be obvious to me constant with her most modern records that the president has nominated a neo-socialist. And I ask her a request yesterday at some level of my time … provided that she went to Moscow Enlighten College and studied scientific communism, I asked her if she’d ever been a member of the Communist Birthday celebration. It took me about a questions but she at last talked about ‘yeah.’ And then Sherrod Brown, my chairman, Senator Brown went crack-brained on me and tried to pause me from asking questions and I promptly told him to shut up. I correct mediate the American of us are entitled to take hang of that the president has nominated somebody to control our banks who believes, as she talked about, in casting off banks, and she primitive to be a member of the Communist Birthday celebration.

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