Kennedy: honestly surprised, I thought you would pounce like a ninja; FDIC’s Gruenberg resign


Kennedy asks Su to call for FDIC’s Gruenberg to resign in Appropriations 05 09 24
On 5/9/2024, during tense questioning by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) asked Su at the hearing on the Biden administration’s fiscal 2025 budget request for the Department of Labor if she would use her “legal authority” to open an investigation of the FDIC amid the ongoing scandal. “I am deeply concerned anytime a working person goes to work and does not get the dignity and respect that they deserve,” Su said, while noting she is “charged with enforcing certain laws based on the powers that Congress has given to the Department of Labor.”

“I appreciate that you are raising an issue involving working people who have experienced clearly horrific … ” she said. “And what it demonstrates is that too often workers may feel like they have to endure [what] no one should have to endure because of a power imbalance in the workplace.”

Kennedy then pressed Su on whether she plans to “do anything about it,” such as calling on FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg to resign, while arguing Su has a “legal and moral authority to investigate Labor.”

“I’m honestly surprised. I thought you would pounce on this like a ninja,” he said, to which Su responded, “Like a what?”

Kennedy said he’d “heard that expression in movies” before accusing Su of “waffling” during his line of questioning.

“Are you or are you not going to call for Martin Gruenberg, who runs the FDIC and has been there since God was a corporal, and the senior leadership over there to resign?” he said.

Su didn’t specifically answer that question, but defended the administration’s budget request for the Labor Department.

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Kennedy: honestly surprised, I thought you would pounce like a ninja; FDIC’s Gruenberg resign

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