{"id":1264900,"date":"2022-02-02T12:52:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T17:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1264900"},"modified":"2022-02-02T12:52:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T17:52:31","slug":"hyper-partisan-fed-nominee-blocks-senate-banking-gop-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hyper-partisan-fed-nominee-blocks-senate-banking-gop-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hyper-Partisan\u2019 Fed Nominee Blocks Senate Banking GOP On Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhyper-partisan-fed-nominee-blocks-senate-banking-gop-on-twitter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1264900&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s latest nominee to regulate the banking industry blocked the Senate Banking GOP Twitter account in advance of her confirmation hearing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Banking GOP <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BankingGOP\/status\/1488892585146003463?s=20&amp;t=_YJg0vCRTWSgnIm50S4XCA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> out a screenshot on Wednesday showing that the nominee, Lisa Cook, blocked its account. Cook, a professor of international relations and economics at Michigan State University, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/01\/14\/federal-reservce-board-governors-sarah-bloom-raskin-lisa-cook\/6526620001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nominated<\/a> on Jan. 14 to serve on the Federal Reserve\u2019s Board of Governors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes a lot of chutzpah to block the Senate Committee handling your nomination. Not a good look,\u201d a senior Republican Senate aide told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>\u2014 Senate Banking GOP (@BankingGOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BankingGOP\/status\/1488892585146003463?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This action comes after a week of political mudslinging in which Republican North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenKevinCramer\/status\/1487100659836932097?s=20&amp;t=YsV59EQkWmArWVcADtn5GA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called<\/a> Cook \u201cfundamentally not qualified,\u201d while Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren dismissed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/lisa-cook-federal-reserve-nominee-racist-criticism_n_61f367eee4b02de5f516fa2a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticism<\/a> of Cook as a \u201cracist, sexist and just plain dumb,\u201d according to the Huffington Post. Cook may have taken exception with a Twitter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BankingGOP\/status\/1488136825176739842?s=20&amp;t=YsV59EQkWmArWVcADtn5GA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thread<\/a> from the Senate Banking GOP account on Monday which asked the question, \u201cc<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">an the Fed afford a hyper-partisan like [Cook]<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">? She\u2019s used her platform to advocate for activist politicians, promote radical hyperbole, and malign those who disagree with her far Left views.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/20\/bidens-fed-nominee-lisa-cook-criticized-for-being-unqualified-embellishing-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Biden\u2019s Fed Nominee Lisa Cook Criticized For Being Unqualified, Embellishing Resume)<\/strong><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a peculiar move the day before a confirmation hearing, and suggests that she\u2019s embracing a strategy where the Dems will cram her nomination through on the narrowest possible vote,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilWMagness\/status\/1488909560895229954?s=20&amp;t=v2d4hKju9j0MTiBWvFD3jg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> Phil Magness, a senior research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, of Cook\u2019s decision to block the Senate Banking GOP account. \u201cUp until now, Cook\u2019s strongest argument (ditto with the other nominees) would have been to use the hearing to show that detractors (e.g. George Will) have mischaracterized her as a partisan\/activist nominee. This seems to validate and embolden that exact criticism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A live video of Cook\u2019s nomination hearing will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banking.senate.gov\/hearings\/01\/25\/2022\/nomination-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available<\/a> on Thursday at 8:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s latest nominee to regulate the banking industry blocked the Senate Banking GOP Twitter account in advance of her confirmation hearing on Thursday.The Senate Banking GOP &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}