Responding to a letter questioning his motives in re-evaluating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s payday lending rule and withdrawing lawsuits against payday lenders, acting director Mick Mulvaney pushed back against insinuations levied by six Democratic senators, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Maxine Waters (D-Calif.). Three of the senators then followed up by reiterating questions Mulvaney failed to address from their initial letter.
Mulvaney has exchanged multiple letters with Warren regarding the legitimacy of his status as the bureau’s interim leader and his actions in that capacity.
Find out more about what was said by both parties in this latest war of words.