Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenHarris joins women's voter mobilization event also featuring Pelosi, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda Judd Gregg: The Kamala threat — the Californiaization of America GOP set to release controversial Biden report MORE (D-Mass.) blasted President-elect Donald Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE’s pick for Treasury secretary, calling Steve Mnuchin “the Forrest Gump of the financial crisis.”

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"Steve Mnuchin is the Forrest Gump of the financial crisis — he managed to participate in all the worst practices on Wall Street,” Warren said in a statement.

"He spent two decades at Goldman Sachs helping the bank peddle the same kind of mortgage products that blew up the economy and sucked down billions in taxpayer bailout money before he moved on to run a bank that was infamous for aggressively foreclosing on families," she said.

Warren added that Mnuchin’s selection should “send shivers down the spine of every American who got hit hard by the financial crisis, and is the latest sign that Donald Trump has no intention of draining the swamp and every intention of running Washington to benefit himself and his rich buddies."

Mnuchin on Wednesday morning confirmed on CNBC that he was Trump’s pick to head the Treasury Department.

Mnuchin, who served as the national finance chairman of Trump's campaign, told CNBC that tax reform will help drive economic growth at a sustained rate of 3 to 4 percent.

He has never worked in government and has close ties to Hollywood and Wall Street. The former partner at Goldman Sachs partner founded the hedge fund Dune Capital Management and invested in the movie business.