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Rep. Maxine Waters on crypto: "Let the big billionaires fight it out"
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Rep. Maxine Waters on crypto: "Let the big billionaires fight it out"

Rep. Maxine Waters, House Financial Services Ranking Member (2-6-2025)
US Capitol’s Historic Rayburn Room ahead of Speaker Mike Johnson posing for mock swearing in photos with new members of Congress and their families. Photo: Matt Laslo

Who?

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) — Ranking Member, House Financial Services Committee

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Ask a Pol asks:

I was following that crypto, de-banking hearing — what do you make of this new narrative from the GOP?

Key Waters:

“Well, like I said, I wasn’t gonna even deal with it, because they have refused banking to poor people and to working people,” House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Maxine Waters told Ask a Pol.

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Caught our ear:

“Let the big billionaires fight it out,” Waters told us.

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Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), slightly edited for clarity.

TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Maxine Waters

SCENE: After leaving a de-banking hearing, Rep. Maxine Waters is hopping an underground tram from the US House Office Buildings to the Capitol when Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo snags this brief exchange with her.

Matt Laslo: “You’re the one I’m looking for!”

Maxine Waters: “How you doing?”

ML: “How are you ma’am?”

MW: “How are you?”

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ML: “Living the dream.”

MW: “Living the dream?”

ML: “I was following that crypto hearing. How do you — what do you make of this new narrative?”

MW: “Well, like I said, I wasn’t gonna even deal with it, because they have refused banking to poor people and to working people. Let the big billionaires fight it out.”

Maxine Waters gets enters tram.

ML: “Mind if I get on with you?”

Waters wasn’t interested in a long interview.

MW: “Let the big billionaires fight it out.”

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ML: “Yeah?”

MW: “Not me. I ain’t in it.”

Rep. Kweisi Mfume: “And I’m with Maxine!”

Laslo turns to a smiling Rep. Mfume who was seated in another section of the tram.

ML: “I know, right? You’re a wise man!”

Laslo turns back to Waters.

ML: “Thank you, ma’am.”

Nicolae Viorel Butler contributed to this report.

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