Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pointing the finger squarely at Congress in the fault-finding over the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, which sent tremors through the financial system.
Ms. Warren, Massachusetts Democrat and a champion of stricter oversight of the financial sector, blamed the chaos on a Trump-era measure that weakened protections of the Dodd-Frank law that was passed to protect consumers in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse.
SVB failed in recent days after a big run on deposits amid a broad tech-sector downturn, and a second institution, Signature Bank, also was shut down.
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