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Leadership Problems at the CFPB
KetBra
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So, Trump has named Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-cpfb/trump-names-white-house-budget-director-mulvaney-acting-head-of-consumer-agency-idUSKBN1DP00J?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5a19023204d3017f30c6ba60&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
This comes hours after outgoing Cordray appointed Leandra English as deputy director, the position which under federal state automatically becomes acting director. This means that the CFPB now has two acting directors, one of which is actively hostile to the agency's mission, and has the backing of the President, but not federal statute.
The relevant excerpt from Dodd-Frank (which created the CPFB):
This seems... bad? It looks like either English will step down, or this will go to the courts.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-cpfb/trump-names-white-house-budget-director-mulvaney-acting-head-of-consumer-agency-idUSKBN1DP00J?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5a19023204d3017f30c6ba60&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
This comes hours after outgoing Cordray appointed Leandra English as deputy director, the position which under federal state automatically becomes acting director. This means that the CFPB now has two acting directors, one of which is actively hostile to the agency's mission, and has the backing of the President, but not federal statute.
The relevant excerpt from Dodd-Frank (which created the CPFB):
[the consumer bureau's deputy director shall] “serve as acting Director in the absence or unavailability of the Director.”
This seems... bad? It looks like either English will step down, or this will go to the courts.
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Ha. Ha. Ha. I don't think that's gunna matter too much.
I imagine this is going to the court because even the GOP thinks, on this sort of thing, there are rules and procedures to follow. Trump doesn't give a shit about filling a lot of government positions, and I'd say it's weird that he wants to appoint someone for this job, but y'know. We already know what they're up to.
This is classic Trump, unnecessarily mean and petty.
IIRC, whoever wins in Alabama may no be certified until around the end of December though.
The big thing that pops out to me is that the CFPB was established by statute during the Obama terms so saying the previous general legislation override the specific later legislation seems like a really weird argument.
IANAL or anything but...
IANAL but the last legislation always takes precedence. Congress cannot bind congress.
However I am not finding this memo. The most relevant one predates this and doesn’t seem to mention the cfpb
I don't think he'd care if someone told him.
CNN White House Correspondent
I mean, I do have a bias in favor of civil servants, but with the Supreme Court and Congress effectively eliminating Recess appointments that seems the way it ought to work. Replacing the Director is kind of the whole point of having a Deputy to begin with. Same reason we have a Vice President. Their literal only expressed Constitutional role is breaking a tie in the Senate, and not dying in case the President does.
Yet another Constitutional crisi
I'm pretty sure they're due back tomorrow, if only because Dec. 8 is when the CR ends and we enter a government shutdown.
The Senate is scheduled to be in session from now until December 15th.
Reuters reporter
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Apparently the CFPB lawyers are siding with the 70s vacancies law that the White House is citing, and Mulvaney showed up to the office today with a box of donuts.
That's got to be an awkward day in the office
Props to English for basically nuking her career to prevent that creep from fucking things up more
A quote for the ages. But really, I cannot help but feel this does harm government institutions overall long-term. Is there any precedent for something like this?
It's not clear that she is the proper acting director.
Via BuzzFeed reporter