President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Treasury Department made more than $1 million from speeches and working with corporate clients, according to financial disclosures published on Thursday.
Janet Yellen, Biden’s nominee to be secretary of Treasury, made more than $7.2 million speaking at Wall Street and corporations over the past two years, according to her financial disclosure form.
The president-elect’s choice for secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has made almost $1.2 million in the past two years through consulting clients at the firm WestExec Advisors, according to his financial disclosure.
The large amounts of money collected by Biden’s Cabinet picks could complicate progressive support for the nominees during the Senate confirmation hearings.
Yellen, whom progressives praised when Biden named her as the Treasury nominee, made millions in speaking for Citi, Goldman Sachs, Google, City National Bank, UBS, Citadel LLC, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Salesforce and others. For Citi alone, she received $1 million for nine speeches, and for Citadel, a hedge fund founded by a Republican donor, she received more than $800,000.
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so maybe she should pay for all the millions of dollars going to foreign countries instead of to our own citizens. then again, maybe she will be paying as the democrats believe in taxing the rich
So they were smart enough to make money. That’s a problem?
suddendly people are not free to do whatever they want with their money?