BUDGET/CONSUMER PROTECTION/MICK MULVANEY: “The White House’s budget chief, Mick Mulvaney, arrived at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday [11-27-17] to assume the job of acting director after an Obama-era official sued to block the Trump administration from taking control of the agency.
Mr. Mulvaney, carrying a bag from Dunkin’ Donuts, entered the building early Monday with aides at his side. Officials at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, which Mr. Mulvaney leads, later tweeted an image showing him sitting at a desk reading briefing books on the consumer regulator.
It wasn’t clear whether Leandra English, a career staffer appointed Friday to lead the CFPB by former director Richard Cordray, was also working in the building. She filed a lawsuit in federal court Sunday night in an attempt to stop the Trump administration from running the bureau while the White House finds a permanent nominee to head the CFPB. Mr. Cordray, the former director appointed by President Barack Obama, stepped down on Friday.”
-Yuka Hayashi, “Tensions Are High as Mulvaney Arrives at Embattled CFPB,” The Wall Street Journal online, Nov. 27, 2017 10:21am