SEC Chairman Paul Atkins ripped Joe Biden on Tuesday, accusing the former president’s administration of weaponizing financial rules to push his woke agenda as Wall Street’s new top cop vowed to “make IPOs great again”.

The new head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission made a thinly veiled dig at disclosure red tape such as Environmental and Social Governance rules that he lambasted as “regulatory creep”, claiming the Dem commander-in-chief and his allies “weaponized” financial disclosure rules “to advance social and political agendas”

“The path to public ownership has become narrower, costlier, and overly burdened with rules that often create more friction than benefit,” the 68-year-old lawyer said.

“These trends have eroded American competitiveness; locked average investors ou

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