The Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to police the massive coronavirus economic rescue programs, filling a key oversight position Congress created as part of $2 trillion legislation in March.
The Senate voted to 51-40 to approve Brian Miller as Treasury Department special inspector general for pandemic recovery. Miller will be responsible for scrutinizing how Treasury, in partnership with the Federal Reserve, uses $500 billion that Congress made available to prop up ailing companies during the Covid-19 outbreak.
Miller worked for nearly a decade as the inspector general of the General Services Administration, overseeing major waste, fraud and abuse cases. But he more recently served in Trump’s White House counsel office.
Source: politico.com
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