Monday at CFPB: Doughnuts and Two Bureaucrats Claiming They’re in Charge
- Mulvaney shows up and tells watchdog’s workers he’s in charge
- But CFPB official who’s also vying for top job files lawsuit
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If there’s a question mark over who’s in charge of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mick Mulvaney is having none of it.
The White House budget director, who has called the financial watchdog the “worst kind” of government entity, showed up bright and early Monday with an olive branch for the CFPB’s bewildered staff: doughnuts. He then started pouring through briefing books and sent a memo to workers advising them to disregard any orders from the agency bureaucrat who’s separately asserted that she’s the boss.