Former South Carolina representative and current director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney, who once called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) "a joke," will be appointed as the interim director of the CFPB, CBS News first reported Thursday afternoon.
Mulvaney spent two terms in the House of Representatives, beginning in 2010, and served as a member of the Financial Services Committee during that time.
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