Weiss Playing Same Role But Without Senate Confirmation

Bloomberg: “Eight days after joining the Treasury Department as an adviser, Antonio Weiss was the lead U.S. official listed at a meeting with Wall Street executives. It’s a role typically played by the undersecretary for domestic finance — the same post Weiss lost after Democratic senators stymied his nomination.”

“The sequence of events has raised questions about whether the administration is trying to circumvent the normal Senate confirmation process.”