The House voted Wednesday to undo the Trump administration’s reining in of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and prevent future directors from replicating those efforts.

The bill from Rep. Maxine Waters Maxine Moore WatersPowell, Mnuchin stress limits of current emergency lending programs Pelosi: House will stay in session until agreement is reached on coronavirus relief Omar invokes father's death from coronavirus in reaction to Woodward book MORE (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, passed the chamber along party lines in a vote of 231 to 191, with no Republicans supporting the measure.

Called the Consumers First Act, the bill aims to reverse actions taken by former CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney Mick MulvaneyOn The Money: House panel pulls Powell into partisan battles | New York considers hiking taxes on the rich | Treasury: Trump's payroll tax deferral won't hurt Social Security Blockchain trade group names Mick Mulvaney to board Mick Mulvaney to start hedge fund MORE to loosen the bureau’s oversight of financial firms, rollback agency regulations, reorganize key departments and rebrand the polarizing watchdog.

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“Putting Mick Mulvaney in charge of the consumer financial protection bureau was the epitome of a fox guarding the hen house, so we have to undo all of the damage he did while he was acting director of the CFPB,” Rep. Carolyn Maloney Carolyn Bosher MaloneyPelosi, Democrats unveil bills to rein in alleged White House abuses of power Government watchdog recommends creation of White House cyber director position Top Democrats call for DOJ watchdog to probe Barr over possible 2020 election influence MORE (D-N.Y.) said in House floor speech ahead of the vote.

Republicans, who have long accused the CFPB of overreaching and being unaccountable, largely favored Mulvaney’s moves to restrain the bureau and came out against Waters’s bill. The White House announced Monday that Trump would veto the bill if it reaches his desk, dooming the measure in the unlikely event it cleared the GOP-controlled Senate.

“I think what we have today is a bit of buyer's remorse by my Democratic colleagues who created the CFPB in order to be this unaccountable bureau but headed by a Democrat or a Democrat presidential appointee,” said Rep. Patrick McHenry Patrick Timothy McHenryCheney battle raises questions about House GOP's future Hillicon Valley: Democrats request counterintelligence briefing | New pressure for election funding | Republicans urge retaliation against Chinese hackers House Republicans urge Trump to take action against Chinese hackers targeting coronavirus research MORE (N.C.), ranking Republican on the Financial Services panel.

The CFPB has been a focus of intense partisan battle since it opened in 2011. Designed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenDimon: Wealth tax 'almost impossible to do' CNN's Don Lemon: 'Blow up the entire system' remark taken out of context Democrats shoot down talk of expanding Supreme Court MORE (D-Mass.), the agency was created through the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law to police financial firms for predatory lending and other unfair, abusive or deceptive practices.

Former CFPB Director Richard Cordray Richard Adams CordrayConsumer bureau revokes payday lending restrictions Supreme Court ruling could unleash new legal challenges to consumer bureau Supreme Court rules consumer bureau director can be fired at will MORE (D) led the agency from 2012 through 2017 under the Obama administration, releasing strict regulations and pursuing costly legal cases against firms that allegedly defrauded or abuses their customers.

Cordray’s resignation in November 2017 gave Republicans an opening to weaken the CFPB from within.

Mulvaney, who led the CFPB from November 2017 until this past December when he left to become acting White House chief of staff, was fiercely criticized by Democrats and progressive advocates for his efforts to halt the bureau’s aggressive oversight and regulation of the financial services industry.