"It will be embarrassing if I keep this person waiting for a long period of time," Mnuchin told House Financial Services Committee Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-California). Mnuchin then asked Waters again to dismiss him: "You're supposed to take the gravel [sic] and bang it, that's the appropriate ..."9. And with his decision to no-show a House committee hearing about the economic impacts of the government shutdown. And Mnuchin, again like Trump, isn't used to having to be answerable to much of anyone -- apart, perhaps, from stockholders. Mnuchin either isn't familiar with the whole checks-and-balances thing -- or thinks it doesn't apply to him.

Source: CNN April 10, 2019 15:00 UTC