White House officials said Saturday that President Trump was on solid legal ground in naming Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau despite the departing chief’s last-minute designation of a new deputy to temporarily run the agency. President Trump on Friday night named Mulvaney, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, as the bureau’s acting director in the wake of the resignation of its first chief, Richard Cordray. Cordray also appointed his chief of staff, Leandra English, to be deputy director. Mulvaney was confirmed by the Senate to lead OMB and will remain in that job while also serving as acting director of the consumer bureau, senior administration officials said. Senior administration officials said that would be determined by English, who must decide whether she will assert that she is the acting director or defer to Mulvaney.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 25, 2017 15:11 UTC