Ted Cruz introduces bill to abolish CFPB

Published February 14, 2017 9:09pm ET



Texas conservative Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday introduced legislation to “abolish” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, highlighting the threat to the agency from the Right.

Cruz called the CFPB, created by President Barack Obama’s 2010 financial reform law as the brainchild of Elizabeth Warren before her election to the Senate, an “out-of-control bureaucracy.”

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