Trump Treasury official to exit after objecting to Minneapolis crackdown [View all]

Source: msn/Washington Post

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A top Trump Treasury official is leaving his post after privately raising objections to White House-backed plans to crack down on alleged fraud within the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota, according to seven people familiar with the matter.

John Hurley, a donor to President Donald Trump who is serving as the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, began telling associates in recent weeks that he was leaving his post. Hurley had recently conveyed his concerns to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about a project to enhance federal monitoring of international payments from the Minneapolis area, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

His departure underscores how some Trump allies in the federal government are uneasy with the extent of White House directives to deploy law enforcement tools against Minneapolis’s Somali community. Two of the people said he raised data privacy concerns over the plans in question.

Hurley’s internal objections to the Somali fraud plan haven’t previously been reported. His departure is the latest senior-level exit at the Treasury Department, which has seen the departure of two chiefs of staff under Bessent, as well as the resignation of his top deputy in August. Hurley denied the premise of this article, but Treasury officials declined to make him available for an on-the-record interview.

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