Behind Rep. Hill’s Plan to Make Community Banks Great Again

Rep. French Hill, a top contender to lead the House Financial Services Committee, details his plan to help banks, including revamping regulators’ approach to M&A, ending Operation Choke Point, and encouraging more de novos. He also discusses his views on Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump’s nominee for Treasury secretary, the mood among GOP lawmakers, how the government can confront fraud at banks, what he thinks Congress can do for banks over the next two years and his takeaways from the Biden-era regulators’ final Congressional appearance.