Maxine Waters will soon wield gavel in feud with White House

The public feud between Rep. Maxine Waters and President Trump is poised to reach new heights when the California Democrat is granted subpoena power as head of a powerful congressional committee overseeing the financial sector. Waters, a fierce critic of both the president and the banking industry, is in line to wield the gavel on the House Financial Services Committee, giving her the authority to launch investigations into Trump’s bank transactions. Waters has demanded Trump’s impeachment and called for the public confrontation of Cabinet officials while blasting Republicans and the administration for rolling back part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law.