Rep. Porter questions Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin about number of employees at key agency
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- The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) is responsible for preventing another financial crisis and had 36 employees at its peak.
Congresswoman Katie Porter asked Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin a simple question: "How many people work at FSOC today?"
It took him two minutes to actually give a number: ~10
Thank you for the top quality work you do, Mrs. Porter!
This guy can't even answer a simple question. How many? "Is it a secret?" God bless this woman! May she live long and prosper and always keep her sense of humor and whip smart ability to pin down these liars.
Because it's not a simple answer, it's a multi-agency advisory group which a small core of dedicated staff that draws upon much larger resources from both within Treasury and other agencies. The question is misleading because she only wants the dedicated staff which does not provide the complete picture.
stupor
@@mikeclement4029 It actually IS a really simple answer. He just refused to provide it without cushioning this devastatingly small number in a bunch of context that he hoped would soften the blow. At the end he gives an answer, and it is a very simple one. "About 10 people". If he was unafraid of the answer, he would just give it. But because he is afraid of what her follow up questions and points will be, he refused to give it. Pathetic.
Hey #CBS hired this dude...for some reason 🤔
You notice, he never says, I just don't know. So he does know. He knows it's wrong, so he's covering.And he's getting paid with OUR taxdollars!
Lisa Chaput
I’ll take a guess that, like those that serve in the House or Senate for only a single term, Sec. Mnuchin will have a generous pension and lifelong healthcare insurance coverage.
He knows he has dirty hands...that's why he was beating around the bush
@@MrBandaman Yes, many of the money grabbers in the White House try to make up their story as they go along.
Wow, he can’t he answer a direct question? 🤦🏻♀️
he's a loathsome , wretched man. pure malfeasance.
Marius M
He has expressed resentment at being called The Foreclosure King. Gee, that’s too bad.
Ask a simple question, get a convoluted answer.
ha ha
How incompetent does one have to be to not know how many employees that you have or oversee?
Thanks Katie. From Australia :)
"Is it a secret?" That is too funny
This is how our representative (criminals) talk. The shit is so deep. Their day of reckoning is coming. Voting isn’t enough. We need to take our country back.
Mnuchin is not a representative. He is Secretary of the Treasury. Rep Porter actually does her job and asks the important questions he obviously doesn't know the answer to. Your statement doesn't make any sense.
Richard only used a wrong word and you know it. It's obvious that he means "government", not "representative". The word "criminals" is more than a hint.
Richard Hedd
Is that that your real name?
This woman should run everything. I love how she is straight forward yet educated
As a Gay Man, I have never been so in love with this woman!!
Thank you Ms . Porter we need more people like you . Hold them accountable
You have gained a fan :) Keep up the sterling work and ensure these people will NEVER cross your path!
Lock him up
Love her!
Rep. Porter is everything we need in our leadership right now.
THANK YOU KATIE PORTER FOR FIGHTING FOR ALL OF US TO DO BY RIGHT
ASKING THE MOST DIFFICULT QUESTIONS FOR THESE HOUSE PARTY PLAYER TO ANSWER GOD BLESS YOU KATIE PORTER IN ALL THAT YOU DO N DO FOR ALL AMERICANS IN THE USA 🇺🇸
It’s amazing how many times you can ask the same question over and over again to republicans and the answers are always the same. So frustrating to listen to.
Get em Katie 👏👏👏
You are Amazing Katie🙌🏻
We are so lucky to have this women on are side!!!!
Katie, you are a gem. Please don't change,
I just noticed you had captions.
THANK YOU BASED KATIE PORTER!
You gotta love Katie she is relentless.
Ms. Porter, you are a hero!!! This crook needs to be booted out!!
TWO MINUTES to say “under a dozen”, and he’s running the TREASURY?
We are so screwed.
Mrs. Porter you are my hero. Funny how a senator that is not corrupt sticks out like a sore thumb. The Repuglicans cant answer her question or they incriminate themselves
just listening to these people evade the questions is very frustrating!
Why can none of these big corporate executives answer simple questions with the required simple answer?
Inigo Montoya - "You keep using that word, "again". I do not think it means what you think it means."
Why are they allowed to give nonanswers?
Lmbooioo!!!! SHE'S BRILLIANT
CLEAN UP FSOC!
Has this office become Politicalized?
"only the best people."
Keep looking out for the little guy, and work towards your run for the presidency!
Soo....how many people work at FSOC rn?
Well that was 2.03 of my life I will never get back
She is the best!!!
Why can't the administration stop corps like ATT FROM COUTTING OVER 3000+ employees at times like this that's 3000 more on unemploymrnt
This guy has got to GO.
Such a tough lady
women, they will get ya. -Every Man that ever lived
She needs to run for President in the next election - she is Kickin' Ass for all . The new version of Judge Judy
How does this man in charge of anything????
Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth!😳
Is she sitting in two chairs?! Damn!
I f they could only be as good at getting something done as they are at evading quetsions, this country would be amazing!!!!
These people can never answer question that just shows how Shady they are
Assuming the people behind him works for him, no one can help him give the exact number?
He could have just said less than a dozen of people the FIRST TIME she ask, not 6 times later repeating the same question, explaining the question sheesh
As Secretary of the Treasury, Mnuchin supported the Trump tax cuts and the tax reform of 2017, and advocated reducing personal and corporate tax rates.
This guy is blowing smoke
I love her (and I hope to god I never have to engage in a battle of wits with her)
@Bruce Wade Ha... you think she's dumb? She has a doctorate from Harvard. Fool. Now stop embarrassing yourself.
Every once in a while you just want to slap upon meeting. That’s how I feel about him.
Answer was very simple
Everyone know that
I DON'T KNOW .
finally a chick that can ,should, and legit deserves to be our first president, may she never bend like Warren!!
The chair Mnuchin is sitting in should be rigged to deliver a painful electric shock every time the person sitting in it fails to directly and honestly answer a question. It sure would be fun to watch Trump's appointees do the Funky Chicken every time someone asks them something! 😂😂
Its like when you ask “So how many kids are in your class room Sir?” “How many? Well if we add up all the kids in the whole school..umm yeah it would be a lot more than all the kids in just one class room.” “Sir How MANY kids are there in YOUR classroom alone?” Come on how hard is it to answer a question this dude is supposed to be in the treasury and they don’t seem to know jack crap.
He’s speaking with the purpose of wasting time. That’s why I hate congressional hearings. Representatives and Senators can ask very direct questions but never receive simple answers. It took her 2 seconds to ask the question, it took him 1 minute and 30 seconds to give a clear answer. Think about this: He works as the Secretary of the Treasury and can’t give a number of his staff employed within an agency under his purview. That’s disgusting. Either he’s stupid, or he’s being dishonest, or he’s being unethical by avoiding the discourse. It’s disgraceful.
What tax payers,the rich,who had their taxes cut,or the poor who have to pick up the slack?
This woman brings me hope of possible REAL future change.
if you have to HOPE that the gvt. gets better it is already to late.
If you want to have change then you have to have hope that it can be. Don't give into despair😊
Not when all you do is ask questions and finger point...hello?...pesent a plan or solution.
@@josephubil Lol, her job is at this moment to do just that. That's why it's called "oversight".
@@DerAua Thanks for your reply...I appeciate your passion...now ask yourself, did this change anything? No, just another Dem/Lib/Socialist grandstanding for the malcontent mobocracy, lol.
"Because financial research isn't valuable?" Gods, I love her.
Me too...she's actually real.....
@MusicMadMaurice Not that emotions are bad thing!
But the..
...Abundance of it?!!
Who doesn't love her...
I’ll vote for her to be president
Financial research is valuable, but he didn't say what the other options were, so the use of the money may actually be going to something better. I don't think we can really say without knowing the other options.
Good lord...He talks like an idiot...I believe his tactics is to run out the clock on your time...I pray we get people deserving of and capable of doing their jobs next time around..Thank you Ms. Porter ....
His tactic is to dismantle any kind of regulation that could hurt his buddies working at investment banks like Goldman Sachs and others. That's his sole purpose here. To make large financial corporations richer and giving them access to the government, making laws and rules in their favour while removing or sabotaging any kind of oversight.
Sherrie Nale Listening to Mnuchin reminds me of that feeling you get when a toilet just refuses to flush a horrible mess you never want to see again.
@@CrniWuk I totally agree with what you're saying. So true of not just with Mnuchin but with all of #45's Administration.
Reclaiming my time... reclaiming my time... reclaiming my time. I love Ms. Porter!
He was filibustering
I’m very glad that Ms. Porter is in Congress. She embodies everything that our representatives should be.
Her constituents should be very proud that she is a no nonsense, brilliant and determined patriot.
I applaud her!
Couldn't have said that better myself 👍🏽! Can we clone her?
I wish there were more legislators that knew as much as she appears to know and would press like she did to make her point. I think her point is "You don't really run the Treasury Department, do you?"
She asks questions that we want to know glad we have her on board
This is why a Hollywood Motion Picture Producer should NEVER be appointed to The Secretary of the Treasury.
.@MusicMadMaurice Yep, you missed a few!
Mary Brough You should look at Mnuchin’s entry in Wikipedia. Goodness, he’s taken over businesses and crashed them, he’s taken over banks and crashed them :-
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Mnuchin
The list of films that he has had his sticky little fingers in can be seen here :-
www.imdb.com/name/nm6518391/
MusicMadMaurice And quite a few businesses !
"How many people work directly, and only for FSOC"
"Fascinating story. Let me tell you about the way my granpappy used to set up his card table when he'd roll out luncheons for fellow haberdashers, my granpappy was a haberdasher don'tcha know...."
😂😂😂😂
Thirst Fast Reminds me of Abe Simpsons yarns. “I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em.”
@@macweenie "Gimme 5 bees for a quarter", you'd say... LOL!
@@btsmith I'm from Canada and I LOVE her! Balls on that lady. Love it
@@macweenie absolutely spot on...I got the exact same vibe here. They should change the law and allow a representative that doesn't get a straight answer to a direct question to get near you and punch you in the face...without consequences...this would put them in their place.
Jeebus. Keep on keepin' on Rep. Porter. Thanks for looking out for me. Cheers.
He is one of 3 that had a hand in the financial crisis of 2008. Disgusting man, liar, conman, and unlawful 🤮
Heidi, well said, succinct, poignant and reasoned description of a despicable individual. When his fan club members have only personal insults towards what is true you know that they have nothing at all.
Intelligence usually brings out the ignorant.
@@matthatch3920 - yeah...it scares the shit out of them.
Tom Ogden I received a secondhand burn from this comment.
mouse pls enlighten me as to how money is wasted by Dems.
not a single one of these 45 appointees will answer a question directly, this means that they're 1. hiding something, 2. involved in something nefarious, 3. on someone else's payroll, 4. owned by a foreign agent or any combination of the above if not all. I hope when 45's term is over and all these appointees are "released" from their jobs, that the federal government brings them each to trial then sends them to the proper holes in gitmo. No revolving door with corporations, never eligible for another job in the government (unless it's stamping license plates in a prison), stripped of everything they obtained by selling out our nation, and left to rot. And Katie Porter is the exactly right person to see that justice is done.
i agree mostly, but gitmo just needs to be shut down forever, it is an ugly, horrible shame every day that place continues to operate.
katie is serving up some justice now just exposing these pricks. let's never forget how what flaws in the system allowed such a rotten gang to take power, and work to prevent it happening again.
You skipped one, They do not care, they have their money even if they are finally voted out or fired they will still be living quite well.
Or they don't know.
Well said.
You forgot 5 or a moron.
Representative Porter exemplifies what it means to be an elected official of our nation. She is a template for all in statecraft.
@mighty mouse Sure sound like a russian bot there...
@mighty mouse - what a small, ignorant little douchebag you are. Rep. Porter could probably kick the living shit out of you, coward.
@@Nancy-xg9nc - or just an ignorant asshole. He's a Trump supporter, after all.
@@Nancy-xg9nc : Curious... hadn't thought along those lines. 1/2
@mighty mouse foul statements? what was foul? she asked questions that he tried to avoid. i just want to understand what you mean by that.
The Treasury Chair seems to have difficulty with NUMBERS.
....yea.. there's so many of em'.😂🤣😅😂🤣😆🤣
Katie Porter....Good lord, I hope she keeps doing a fantastic job. I would enjoy seeing her in a presidential race one day.
Most defiantly. Wouldn't that be grand. A very articulate person defending America with knowledge. Porter has my vote.
She is better integrating even better than kamala
Did the trump shill ever answer Katie's question? Talk about a word salad tango... ffs!
Me too!!! I'd vote for her in a second. No, a millisecond
Ms. Porter I just want to say, YOU ROCK. What a smart cookie you are. Maybe you should take his job since you can do it better.
So the head of the Treasury seems to have a problem with numbers. Is that what I’m getting here?
Rising Star within the Party
You might be First-term Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif. )
but ''You'll Brilliant '' Thank you Rep, Katie Porter, keeping it real and Always holding them accountable
When Congress Woman Katie Porter said, “Is it a secret?” I laugh so hard. I love her so much. I am proud to be a Californian.
Is there any Republican who can give a straight answer?
You must understand, it is very difficult to give a straight answer when your head is up trumps bung hole.
No
He's a politician
Sure they can but they will not. There is a difference .
@@regs3836 😄😂🤣👍!!!
"Slightly less than a dozen." What a clown this guy is.
He can't even answer the question!
Phoenix Marine ....
How absolutely pathetic was that response !!
Part of Munchie's job is to bull shit the system and NEVAH give a straight HONEST answer. It's part of the reason donnie LOVES his smelly elitist balls so much.
Who of this regime have you known to answer any question with a response that was coherent?
@@uradragon excellent point.
He knows there is a time limit...as in a deposition, you are always requested to waste as much time as possible. This is what he is doing.
As someone who has given up on both parties of this Two Party system, Rep. Katie Porter gives me hope that there ARE people out there who do work for, We The People
I live in CT but, I absolutely love you, Katie Porter. You are amazing.
Stacy Melanson I live in Germany and I love her too. I wish we‘d had more politicians like her in Germany. I suppose we have only a few like her, e.g. Gregor Gysi and Sahra Wagenknecht- Unfortunately they belong to a party for which I could not give my vote, but if I were US citizen I would definetly vote for the DEMS (due to politicians like Warren, Porter or Sanders)
GET EM KATIE
Incompetent people running our country. This is why education is important without it people can get scammed into believing anything. Education matters.
Katie you're the best! Keep up the great work!! Thank you
Why can't he give her an answer? My friend said Everytime she see or hear him she feels like she needs to take a shower.
He does make you feel as though you have been slimed.
She showed him up!!!! She is fantastic!!
Go Rep Porter!!! He is such a condescending ass, like he is doing you a favor by addressing any topic he spoke of earlier. His lack of direct answer screams "I want to hide this from you and everyone else!" Thank you!! Its a blast watching you work!!!
the number is a paragraph
I love you porter u r awesome...i m a fan of ur honesty
Katie Porter rocks!!👍
Well you see, you only need financial stability immediately following a financial calamity. This whole ‘let’s-be-proactive-and-analyze-risk’ business is silly. Who needs that? But yeah we should have the GAO perform some CEP on em to fix discrepancies and have more transparency but not to gut it.
Keep pushing Congresswoman Porter.
"If I keep talking and dodging the question, I won't have to answer."
Little does he know that what isn't being said is more telling than what is being said.
Hey liddle stevie have you and your wife taken any more pics holding sheets of money!
We've learned two important things. First, somehow our financial stability has become less important as of late. And second, Mnuchin is productive approximately 1/120 or 0.8333333% of the time and the rest is just hot air.
It has to be exhaustive working that hard to avoid getting to the point.
Mnuchin must’ve been EXCELLENT at writing papers that needed a specific word count. Just word salad after word salad, after superfluous, pedantic rhetoric, debating the semantics of nothingness.
They are gutting services that protect you... i recently saw and ad on a subway car in nyc for hiring at THE FDA. You want your food and drug safety monitored by someone from the subway? Really? WTF!
Did she seem a little tired? As one of the few beacons of hope in this day and age, I pray that she is not wearing down under the relentless siege against transparency and accountability in this government.
Yes rep. Porter. Must Investigate US treasury.
through passed 3 years experiences, trump thinks us treasury is his savings. It’s seriously.
Just man up and say you don't know!
You're expecting too much of an invertetbrate like Mnuchin.
Or can't count to ten.
No, it's far worse than not knowing. He knows exactly what the answer is, but he's trying not to answer because he knows it shows that he has deliberately cut the number of staff in an important department that shouldn't have been cut back!