{"id":15585,"date":"2025-11-12T18:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/key-gop-senator-backs-trumps-fdic-pick-citing-progress-on-workplace-reforms\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T18:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:01:45","slug":"key-gop-senator-backs-trumps-fdic-pick-citing-progress-on-workplace-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/key-gop-senator-backs-trumps-fdic-pick-citing-progress-on-workplace-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Key GOP senator backs Trump\u2019s FDIC pick, citing progress on workplace reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump\u2019s nominee to lead the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has won the backing of a key Republican senator who had earlier threatened to vote against him over concerns about the agency\u2019s handling of workplace harassment.<\/p>\n

Sen. John Kennedy<\/a> (R-La.) said he will support acting FDIC Chair Travis Hill, who is Trump\u2019s pick to permanently lead the agency. Kennedy\u2019s endorsement clears a major hurdle for Hill, whose nomination has broad backing from the banking industry and other Senate Republicans, and paves the way for a vote in the Senate Banking Committee.<\/p>\n

Kennedy last month threw up a surprise roadblock<\/a> when he said he wouldn\u2019t vote for Hill until the FDIC produced a report detailing how it has addressed sexual harassment and other workplace misconduct. Kennedy said at the time he had \u201cheard nothing\u201d from Hill about the issue since he took over as acting chair in January.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am satisfied with the progress the agency is making,\u201d Kennedy said in a statement<\/a> Tuesday. \u201cI intend to vote to confirm Mr. Travis Hill as FDIC Chairman. This is no country for creepy old men.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kennedy\u2019s office released the FDIC report<\/a> he requested, which outlined \u201clong-overdue plans\u201d to improve the agency\u2019s workplace culture and confirmed that progress was underway.<\/p>\n

According to the report, 26 employees \u201cleft the agency specifically due to substantiated allegations of misconduct\u201d in the 2025 fiscal year\u2014 either because they were fired or resigned before they could be terminated. The report also detailed previously announced efforts to revamp the complaint process, bolster training and establish new offices focused on professional conduct and cracking down on harassment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have instituted new leadership across the agency, and today not a single FDIC executive with substantiated allegations of misconduct remains with the agency,\u201d Hill wrote in the report.<\/p>\n

The issue drew scrutiny from Democrats as well. Sen. Elizabeth Warren<\/a> (D-Mass.), the Banking Committee\u2019s top Democrat, criticized Hill at his confirmation hearing last month, arguing there was \u201cno record\u201d he took action to address the FDIC\u2019s toxic workplace culture before it was exposed in 2023.<\/p>\n

The revelations about widespread harassment and discrimination, which emerged during the Biden administration, engulfed former FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg\u2019s final months in office last year. Under pressure from lawmakers, the longtime Democratic appointee agreed to step down in May 2024 once a successor was confirmed. But the Senate never voted on President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee. Gruenberg ultimately resigned the day before Trump\u2019s second inauguration earlier this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump\u2019s nominee to lead the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has won the backing of a key Republican senator who had earlier threatened to vote against him over concerns about the agency\u2019s handling of workplace harassment. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said he will support acting FDIC Chair Travis Hill, who is Trump\u2019s pick to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}