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Elizabeth Warren: “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was built in the…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

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Elizabeth Warren Speaks on the Future of the Democratic Party

Published | Video Starts at 12:23

Over the past year, I've often been asked about the abundance agenda and how it fits into the conversation about the future success of our party. When this agenda is about making government more effective, count me in. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was built in the spirit of abundance. Before abundance was hip, the agency consolidated scattered authorities and streamlined bureaucratic processes. And best of all, it worked. Every year, the agency rooted out the fraudsters and returned more than a billion dollars to people who had been cheated. (12:23–12:28)

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Asserts that the CFPB was created to embody government efficiency and abundance.

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