US President Donald Trump on Friday appointed White House budget director Mick Mulvaney to head a financial watchdog that the administration has sought to overhaul as part of its deregulation push. Mulvaney, who described the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as a “sick, sad joke” in a 2014 interview, will serve as acting director until a permanent head is nominated and confirmed, according to a White House statement. That move came hours before Trump tapped Mulvaney as the regulator’s temporary leader. Since the start of his presidency Trump has decried financial rules and regulations, put in place through the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform legislation, to combat the excesses that led to the 2008 financial crisis. The vote was criticized by many Democrats as a sop to Wall Street.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 25, 2017 04:18 UTC