Troubled assets still stalk the halls of the Treasury Department




Federal Drive with Tom Temin show

Summary: Federal programs sometimes live long after the events that inspired them. Remember the Troubled Asset Relief Program, TARP? It was launched as one of the responses to the housing financial crisis of 2008, near the end of the George W. Bush administration. Well TARP is still going. With an update, and what it's like to oversee something like this, the Federal Drive spoke to TARP special inspector general, Christy Goldsmith Romero. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices