President Trump tweeted late Friday that White House budget director Mick Mulvaney will be his new “acting” chief of staff, and that looks like the best choice among the many mooted alternatives. Mr. Mulvaney has done good work on the budget, later taking on double duty as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The latter role was fraught with political land mines that Mr. Mulvaney avoided, and his former aide Kathy Kraninger was recently confirmed by the Senate and will run the agency for the next five...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 15, 2018 00:00 UTC