Mick Mulvaney hasn’t been answering Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s questions, but the Massachusetts Democrat has 100 more for him, anyway.
Warren’s office released a long list of questions for the record that she submitted for Mulvaney, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, after a hearing this month.
The questions add to the 105 that Mulvaney previously brushed off while telling Warren that it was essentially her fault that he didn’t have to answer her, based on her role in designing the structure of the agency.
Mulvaney and Warren have clashed repeatedly as he has sought to overhaul the agency she helped create and steer it in a conservative direction.
The newest batch of questions includes inquiries about whether Mulvaney met with payday lenders before delaying major new regulations on payday loans, how much he is paying his political appointees, the thought process behind overhauling the office of fair lending, and much more.
Of note, Warren mostly passed up her opportunity to ask Mulvaney questions directly at the Senate Banking Committee hearing. Instead, during the short time she had allotted, she drew attention to borrowers who had benefited from CFPB actions and who she argued wouldn’t have been helped if Mulvaney had had his way in curbing the agency’s actions.
“You’re hurting real people to score cheap political points,” she said.
Earlier Tuesday, Mulvaney unapologetically defended the changes he is making at the bureau as President Trump’s acting director, saying that he is following the law that set up the agency.
“We are running a different place. We are,” he said at an American Bankers Association conference. “Elections have consequences.”
