WASHINGTON – Seven years after Elizabeth Warren fought a political battle to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Massachusetts senator was on the sidewalk outside the agency Tuesday fighting for its future.
Warren headlined a demonstration of about 40 people protesting President Trump’s pick of budget director Mick Mulvaney, an avowed opponent of the CFPB, as its new leader.
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At Monday’s demonstration, Warren told reporters that the overlap of this leadership fight with the debate over the Republican tax bill in Senate demonstrates Trump’s “U-turn” from his antiestablishment campaign rhetoric.
“It’s like a double kiss to Wall Street this week,” she said. “Trying to push forward tax reform that gives $1.5 trillion in tax cuts to giant corporations and at the same time trying to hollow out the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.”
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