Guy and Leah
have written about the drama unfolding at the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau. There’s been a fight over who is actually in charge.
Leandra English, the deputy director of the agency, and Mick Mulvaney,
the head of Office of Management and Budget Office, both are caught in a
duel with one another. English says she’s acting director, while
Mulvaney is emailing staffers at the CFPB, telling them to ignore her
directives. A lawsuit has been filed, but Guy mentioned that this is
nothing but a would-be coup by English, who should be fired for
insubordination. Richard Cordray, the former head, resigned earlier this
month. He’s expected to run for governor in Ohio:
As a
result, there was a vacancy at the top of an executive agency. Under
the law, President Trump has the authority to fill that vacancy. But
that's not how the Left sees it. They're arguing that the CFPB is so
"independent" that the president and Congress have virtually no say over
its actions or leadership decisions, which is why the outgoing director
schemed to appoint his own chief of staff as his successor. She has
sued Trump and Trump's legally-installed interim director, Mick
Mulvaney, claiming to be the agency's rightful leader. She is not.
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