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Ep. 22: GOP Tries to Defang Agency That Fined Wells Fargo

The Big Story

By Toula Vlahou, Doug Sword, CQ Staff and Adriel Bettelheim
Posted September 14, 2016 at 7:48pm

 

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created after the 2008 financial crisis just fined Wells Fargo millions of dollars for creating unauthorized accounts for 1.5 million customers, but Republicans in Congress want to strip it of its powers. Listen to CQ Roll Call’s Financial Services reporter Doug Sword and Managing Editor Adriel Bettelheim explain why.

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