Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, speaks to the media at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he began work this week being named acting director by President Trump. (Reuters/Joshua Roberts)By many measures, Mick Mulvaney is one of the most powerful bureaucrats in the country. The White House budget director is, for now, also the acting director of a powerful financial regulator, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “I’m learning about the powers I have as acting director. Whereas the CFPB director is supposed to be insulated from that kind of political pressure,” he said.

Source: Washington Post November 30, 2017 21:33 UTC