Cordray Taps Aide for Consumer Bureau in Challenge to Trump
- Chief of Staff Leandra English will become acting director
- Trump had considered installing Mick Mulvaney on acting basis
Richard Cordray
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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Richard Cordray announced that Friday would be his last day leading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and named one of his lieutenants to immediately take over as acting director, setting up a potential standoff with the Trump administration over the controversial agency’s leadership.
In a memo to the consumer watchdog’s employees, Cordray said his current chief of staff, Leandra English, would become deputy director and automatically rise to acting director when he leaves. English has held several leadership roles under Cordray, a Barack Obama appointee who was the CFPB’s first-ever director.