Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, listens during a Senate Banking Committee hearing. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

The firestorm over Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney’s comments about campaign contributors when he was a House member continued blazing Friday, as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) charged that Mulvaney’s agency work favors industries that gave money to his campaigns.

“Almost every one of your major decisions at the CFPB has fulfilled a request of a lobbying organization that has donated tens of thousands of dollars to your political campaigns,” Warren, a frequent Mulvaney critic charged in a letter to the acting director. “The public deserves to know whether this is a coincidence or is a reflection of the same kind of ‘hierarchy’ you created when you ran your congressional office.”

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