Mulvaney Faces Elizabeth Warren Grilling Over New Tone at CFPB
- Long-time agency critic, who now leads it, set to testify
- In role reversal, Democrats to blast him as GOP offer praise
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For Mick Mulvaney, the tables have turned.
Back when he was a South Carolina congressman, Mulvaney eagerly joined other Republicans in making a pinata out of Richard Cordray, the Barack Obama-appointed head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Cordray’s trips to Capitol Hill were rife with partisan attacks, as GOP lawmakers regularly accused him of ducking oversight and burdening banks with rules that crimped lending.