A former high-level staffer for President Joe Biden ran into some political hurdles during his confirmation hearing to serve as the Treasury Department’s top lawyer.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told Bloomberg Tax that she has “very serious problems” with the nomination of Neil MacBride to fill the role of general counsel at Treasury. MacBride, who previously served as chief counsel to then-Senator Biden, is currently a partner at DavisPolk specializing in white collar defense and civil litigation.
The evenly divided Senate means a single no vote from a Democrat at the committee level would effectively block MacBride’s ...
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