Wall Street Journal: Elizabeth Warren Agrees With Trump: Big Banks Discriminate

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said her office has identified thousands of examples of consumers losing access to their bank accounts. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Elizabeth Warren agrees with President Trump about something.

The Democratic senator from Massachusetts told Trump on Tuesday that she thinks the White House should take action to stop what she said were discriminatory practices by the country’s biggest banks, according to a letter from her office that was viewed by The Wall Street Journal. 

Trump brought the subject to the fore last month when he suggested at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase were unfairly closing conservatives’ bank accounts. 

Those comments set off a political firestorm and the Senate Banking Committee convened a hearing on the matter for Wednesday. 

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