Mnuchin headed toward confirmation without answering Dem questions

Published February 7, 2017 12:17am ET



Steven Mnuchin is headed toward a confirmation vote this week without answering Democrats’ last-minute questions about his former bank’s foreclosure practices.

Democrats last week boycotted a Senate Finance Committee vote on the nomination, and said Mnuchin had yet to provide critical information about his tenure as CEO of the bank OneWest from 2009 to 2015. They accused him of misleading the committee about foreclosures undertaken by the bank, which he purchased from the government after it was bailed out during the financial crisis that saw foreclosures soar.

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