FDIC chairman appointed by Trump resigns
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) Chairman Jelena McWilliams, a Trump appointee, resigned Friday amid a power struggle with Democratic members of the agency’s board.
In a letter to President Biden released Friday, McWilliams announced she would step down from the FDIC on Feb. 4, less than four years after she was confirmed by the Senate to lead the bank regulator.
McWilliams’ unexpected resignation came weeks after Democratic directors on the FDIC board attempted to launch a review of bank merger standards without her approval. While McWilliams ostensibly controlled the FDIC board, she was the sole Republican countering three Democratic directors: Former FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra and Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu.
In a op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, McWilliams denounced the Democratic directors for launching “a hostile takeover” of the FDIC. Republican lawmakers also condemned the Democratic FDIC directors for an unprecedented breach of nearly nine decades of collegiality among agency leaders. Democrats, including the White House, insisted that McWilliams must yield to the will of the FDIC majority.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/587835-fdic-chairman-appointed-by-trump-resigns