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Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, on Wednesday said Mick Mulvaney should resign as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after telling a group of banking industry executives that he only met with lobbyists who gave him campaign donations when he was a member of Congress.
"Deciding who you will meet with based on campaign contributions is the kind of 'pay to play' that understandably makes Americans furious," said a statement from Brown. "Mr. Mulvaney should resign, and the White House should quickly nominate a permanent CFPB Director with bipartisan support and a moral compass. Banks and payday lenders already have armies of lobbyists on their sides a they don't need one more."
Brown also Tweeted for Mulvaney’s resignation:
For reference, here’s what Mulvaney said:
Mick Mulvaney, the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told banking industry executives on Tuesday that they should press lawmakers hard to pursue their agenda, and revealed that, as a congressman, he would meet only with lobbyists if they had contributed to his campaign.
“We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress,” Mr. Mulvaney, a former Republican lawmaker from South Carolina, told 1,300 bankers and lending industry officials at an American Bankers Association conference in Washington. “If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.”
At the top of the hierarchy, he added, were his constituents. “If you came from back home and sat in my lobby, I talked to you without exception, regardless of the financial contributions,” said Mr. Mulvaney, who received nearly $63,000 from payday lenders for his congressional campaigns.
Mr. Mulvaney, who also runs the White House budget office, is a longtime critic of the Obama-era consumer bureau, including while serving in Congress. He was tapped by President Trump in November to temporarily run the bureau, in part because of his promise to sharply curtail it.
Brown is absolutely right. He’s a real Populist looking out for the little guy while Fake Populist, Trump, keeps filling the swamp with alligators. Let’s let Brown know we have his back. Click here to donate and get involved with Brown’s re-election campaign.