Outgoing Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White said Tuesday she is concerned the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans may reverse reforms at the SEC and other financial regulators.

She took particular aim at House Republicans for legislation passed last week which would impose conflicting, burdensome and needlessly detailed requirements on SEC rulemaking with no benefit to investors.

“Investor protection must be paramount,” said White, who will leave her post on Friday.

In prepared remarks to the Economic Club of New York, White also warned that House Financial Services Committee Chair Jeb Hensarling’s Financial CHOICE Act, likely to be reintroduced soon, would likely cripple SEC enforcement and undermine rulemaking.

As the SEC is besieged by criticisms by President-elect Trump, officials on his transition team and Congressional Republicans, White said it will be crucial for the agency to maintain its independence.

“I strongly believe that the agency’s independence has been critical in allowing it to use its expert judgment to do what is best for investors and the markets -- a task that could otherwise be rendered impossible by the whims of political pressure or the public mood,” she said in a prepared speech to the Economic Club of New York.

At the same time that she criticized conservative Republicans, the SEC Chair took a dig at Senator Elizabeth Warren and other liberal Democrats without naming them. White said the SEC has been accused by some of gutting regulation and letting crooks off with a slap of the wrist.

In recommendations for the next SEC Chair and Commission, White cautioned even best disclosures can’t fully, meaningfully inform the complete range of investors about how today’s complex, interdependent products work and create risk.

“(It’s) indisputable that regulators need better and more timely information about the capital markets and market participants so that we can identify, assess and respond to potential risks early. For too many years, the Commission’s ability to monitor the markets has been out-paced by the rapid and diversifying developments in these markets,” she said.

She said the next SEC Chair must make it a priority for the Commission to improve asset management industry transition planning, business continuity, liquidity and derivatives controls.

White also said the Commission needs to complete and put into place staff work to enhance clearing broker-dealer capital and liquidity requirements and formalize stress tests for them.

Calling her stay the first post-financial crisis commission, White said she can take credit for leading the SEC to retool and strengthen enforcement and exam programs, making equity markets more resilient, and improving oversight of the asset management industry.

“(We’ve) completed some of the most significant rulemakings in recent memory, with the last three years alone marked by -- among other measures -- major reforms addressing money market funds, over-the-counter derivatives, asset-backed securities, municipal finance, clearance and settlement and private offering reform,” she added.