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Fortune
Will Daniel

Janet Yellen says the Trump administration 'decimated' the Treasury's financial stability department and she's focused on repairing the 'cracks'

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen came out swinging in a Thursday speech at a National Association for Business Economics conference.

“When the President and I took office in January 2021, we inherited a financial stability apparatus at Treasury that had been decimated,” she said in prepared remarks, arguing that Trump administration budget cuts left her without the proper resources to regulate banks when she took office.

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