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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau partially halts controversial name change effort

By Colin Wilhelm
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau partially halts controversial name change effort

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will remain the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, at least for the most part.

Newly installed bureau Director Kathy Kraninger said Wednesday that she would not move forward with the proposed course to change the bureau’s name set by her predecessor, Trump budget chief and incoming acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. Mulvaney had renamed the agency the “Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.”

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