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Becker Urges Paulson to Change Course

WASHINGTON - Saying that credit unions "will be unfairly constrained in their ability to address the challenges that they now face through no fault of their own."

By Claude R. Marx | Updated on November 12, 2008

WASHINGTON – Saying that credit unions “will be unfairly constrained in their ability to address the challenges that they now face through no fault of their own,” NAFCU President Fred Becker today urged Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to reverse yesterday’s decision to not have the government buy illiquid assets.

In a letter to Paulson, Becker quoted from the law passed by Congress last month as stating that funds must be used to “purchase, and to make fund commitments to purchase, troubled assets from any financial institution.” Becker added that using the money for anything else is an “egregious abuse” of taxpayer funds.

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