Biden’s Appointments Speak to an Extremist Agenda

Published in TownHall.

Perhaps the most outrageous example of the president’s extremist appointments was his nomination of Saule Omarova to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. A graduate of Moscow State University on the Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship, Omarova tweeted in 2019, “Until I came to the US, I couldn’t imagine that things like gender pay gap still existed in today’s world. Say what you will about old USSR, there was no gender pay gap there. Market doesn’t always 'know best.'” In an academic paper Omarova’s advocated that “central bank accounts fully replace — rather than compete with — private bank accounts.” It’s disturbing that a person who spent much of her academic career deriding capitalist institutions and advocating for unprecedented government management of the economy, was nominated for such a critical economic position. At least the nation can be thankful that Omarova withdrew her nomination in December – as many moderate Democrats made clear they could not support her nomination.

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