Monday, November 27, 2017

Typical Trump choice

President Donald Trump’s  [...]  pick to temporarily head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney ] is [...] under consideration to become interim director of the federal government’s consumer watchdog.

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Mulvaney is  [...]  poised to become [...] another in a string of appointees who have previously attacked the agencies they now head, including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who sued the agency as Oklahoma attorney general, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who previously proposed abolishing the department he now heads.

  Vox
The actual temporary head of the consumer protection agency, Leandra English, has filed a lawsuit challenging Trump's right to put Mulvaney in that position. I assume that even if she wins, Trump will nominate Mulvaney to be the permanent head. And it doesn't seem like Congress has any intention - or ability - to bar any of Trump's inappropriate agency heads. I haven't delved into this CFPB issue enough to know why he hasn't simply made that nomination already.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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