Biden’s pick to regulate national banks received ‘Lenin’ award, praised USSR for gender equality
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President Biden’s pick to oversee the regulation of national banks once praised the Soviet Union for gender equality and received a “Lenin” award while in college.
As recently as 2019, Omarova praised the former Soviet Union for having no pay gap – something which, she believes, could be improved in the U.S.
"Until I came to the US, I couldn’t imagine that things like gender pay gap still existed in today’s world," Omarova wrote in a tweet. "Say what you will about old USSR, there was no gender pay gap there. Market doesn’t always ‘know best.’"
A fierce critic of Wall Street, Omarova’s nomination has sent off alarm bells within Washington and among the nation’s most powerful banks over her proposed reforms to "effectively ‘end banking,’ as we know it."