Are consumer advocates just delaying the inevitable in fight over CFPB acting director?
WASHINGTON - They waved signs. They banged drums. And they chanted their opposition to Mick Mulvaney's appointment as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
"For six years this agency has fought for working people and now it is time for us to fight for the agency," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) at a rally this week in front of the bureau's headquarters. "Are you ready to fight?"
The crowd of about 50 protesters roared "Yeah!" in unison.
On the surface, the battle by consumer advocates and Democrats against Mulvaney, an outspoken critic of the
