Updated: Doughnuts, dueling memos factor in showdown over U.S. consumer agency
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Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With doughnuts in hand, President Donald Trump’s appointee to head the U.S. government consumer watchdog agency turned up for work on Monday, challenging the acting appointee of the outgoing Obama-era head in an unprecedented partisan showdown over how the U.S. financial system should be regulated.
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But Mulvaney quickly installed himself in Cordray’s former office and stood his ground, writing in a staff email an hour later:
“Please disregard any instructions you receive from Ms. English in her presumed capacity as Acting Director,” he said in a memo seen by Reuters. “If you receive additional communications from her today ... please inform the General Counsel.”
Mulvaney also signed off as “acting director” and invited staff to pop by his office on the fourth floor to “grab a donut.”
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is a far-right, radical teabagging asshole ignoramus who in a sane world would be nowhere near the Federal Government, let alone policy making, let alone heading an agency.
