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CFPB

Siding With 'Loan Sharks' Over Consumers, Trump CFPB Moves to Gut Payday Lender Regulations

Rebuking Trump CFPB for Only Serving Nation's "Most Powerful Financial Companies," Student Loan Watchdog Resigns

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Mick Mulvaney, Acting Director of the Consumer Finanical Protection Bureau

"The bureau's new political leadership has repeatedly undercut and undermined career CFPB staff working to secure relief for consumers."

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In Fiery Exchange, Warren Tells Trump Nominee Kathy Kraninger Her Role in Cruel Child Detention 'a Moral Stain That Will Follow You for the Rest of Your Life'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass)

"And if the Senate votes to give a big promotion to you after this," the...

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Did Trump's Pick for Consumer Agency Help 'Lock Immigrant Children Up in Cages'? Senators Demand Answers

Jake Johnson, staff writer

Kathy Kraninger, the president's pick to lead the Consumer Financial Protection...

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Kathy Kraninger

Outrage After White House Vows New CFPB Nominee Will Continue Mulvaney's Efforts to Gut Agency

'What Happens When You Put Someone in Charge of Agency They Think Shouldn't Exist,' Says Warren After Mulvaney Guts CFPB Panel

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'War on Students': Consumer Advocates Warn Mulvaney's Moves at CFPB Will Lead to 'Open Season on Borrowers'

Senators Call for Federal Probe After Mulvaney Boasts About 'Pay-to-Play'

Elizabeth Warren Mick Mulvaney CFPB

After Mulvaney Admitted Selling Access to Lobbyists in Congress, Warren Wants to Know If He's Doing the Same at CFPB

For Openly Admitting Corruption 'That Makes Americans Furious,' Senator Demands Mick Mulvaney Resign

'Open and Flagrant Corruption': Mulvaney Admits to Bankers He Only Met With Lobbyists Who Gave Him Cash

Wells Fargo's $3 Billion Tax Windfall 'More Than Offsets' Trump's Paltry $1 Billion Fine

Senate Republicans Take Trump's War on Regulations to 'Vicious' New Level

Less Than Zero: Brown Accuses Mulvaney of Taking 'Negative Four' Actions to Defend Consumers From Predatory Banks

Trying to Gut His Own Agency, Mulvaney Asks Congress to Diminish CFPB Powers

'Corruption, Plain and Simple': Public Comments Show Outrage at CFPB's Corporate Turn Under Mulvaney

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US PIRG

As Senators Consider Confirming Kathy Kraninger to Run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, More than 100 groups Release Online Video to Defend the CFPB

Patriotic Millionaires

Patriotic Millionaires' Chair Destroys Mick Mulvaney's Proposal To Restrict CFPB Power...

US PIRG

Mick Mulvaney's 1st Report to Congress...

Allied Progress

Equifax Gave Mulvaney Thousands, Now He’s Putting the CFPB’s Investigation “On Ice”

Americans for Financial Reform

Changes to CFPB Fair Lending Office Undermine Anti-Discrimination Work

The Greenlining Institute

Mick Mulvaney Appointment as CFPB Director Disastrous for Consumers, Greenlining Institute Says

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Carl J. Mayer

In Ohio, A Key Test for Politicians Willing to Challenge Corporate Power

Sharon Velasquez

Trump Administration War on CFPB Is Bad News for Communities of Color

Richard Cordray

The Trump Administration Is Trying To Undermine The CFPB. It Will Fail.

Nomi Prins

How to Set the Economy on Fire: Trump’s Financial Arsonists

Elizabeth Warren

Even After Equifax and Wells Fargo, GOP Sides With Big Financial Institutions

Heidi Shierholz

Forced Arbitration is Bad For Consumers

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