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Mulvaney cracks down on CFPB as White House insists he's in control (Hiring freeze)
Fox News ^ | November 27, 2017 | Barnini Chakraborty

Posted on 11/27/2017 3:29:55 PM PST by jazusamo

White House budget boss Mick Mulvaney moved quickly Monday to rein in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, imposing a 30-day hiring freeze and other new rules as the fight over who’s really in charge of the agency heads to court.

Mulvaney, whom President Trump chose to run the CFPB on a temporary basis, has a history of bashing the bureau and has called it a “sad, sick” joke.

He didn’t back away from those assertions Monday afternoon, describing the CFPB as “an awful example of a bureaucracy that has gone wrong and is almost entirely unaccountable.”

Mulvaney said he was surprised at the unchecked powers afforded to the bureau – including his.

“I am just finding out about the powers I have as acting director and they would frighten most of you,” he said. “It’s frightening to think about how little oversight Congress has over me now as I am the director.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cfpb; hiringfreeze; leandraenglish; mickmulvaney; mulvaney; trump; trumpcfpb
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1 posted on 11/27/2017 3:29:55 PM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
Sounds like Trump/Mulvaney are kicking ass and taking no prisoners.

Excellent!

2 posted on 11/27/2017 3:37:00 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass Cons legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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To: jazusamo

Does this agency duplicate another? Are we getting scre*** twice??


3 posted on 11/27/2017 3:38:14 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: DoughtyOne

Amen to that.

I sure hope some leftist 0bama appointed judge does try to throw a monkey wrench into this.


4 posted on 11/27/2017 3:39:58 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: Sacajaweau

Air Traffic Controllers.....redux.

Fire them.


5 posted on 11/27/2017 3:42:30 PM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Sacajaweau

From what I’ve read the director of this abomination has almost unlimited power, it should be eliminated in my view.


6 posted on 11/27/2017 3:43:02 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo; DoughtyOne

does = doesn’t :(


7 posted on 11/27/2017 3:45:25 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: DoughtyOne

“Sounds like Trump/Mulvaney are kicking ass and taking no prisoners.
Excellent!”

Another rogue agency that Trump is getting under control.


8 posted on 11/27/2017 3:47:28 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: jazusamo

I wish Trump would appoint me as the CFPB director.

On my first day I’d gather everyone together and say, “You’re all fired. Please be gone within the hour.”


9 posted on 11/27/2017 3:49:02 PM PST by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, Conservative by principle.)
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To: jazusamo

I know what you meant. No harm, not foul. Hate when I do that though, and it’s not as infrequent as I would like.

I’ve had to force myself to do better proof-reading.

My posts were beginning to earn me the title of “D1 - Beyond Blunderprone!”


10 posted on 11/27/2017 3:49:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass Cons legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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To: Parley Baer

I like the “hiring freeze” end of this. Excellent!

It’s just what we hired Trump to do.


11 posted on 11/27/2017 3:51:22 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass Cons legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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To: jazusamo

This was why English did not want to leave the office. She was drunk with absolute power. Now she can cry her eyes out or beg her former master Odumbo.


12 posted on 11/27/2017 3:51:25 PM PST by beergarden
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To: MeganC

Amen to that.


13 posted on 11/27/2017 3:51:41 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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MAGA!

Lets git ‘er done this month, folks!

Please bump the Freepathon or click above to donate or become a monthly donor!

14 posted on 11/27/2017 3:52:51 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: DoughtyOne
Sounds like Trump/Mulvaney are kicking ass and taking no prisoners.

The Prez needs to move his Senate-approved heads from one department to another, as he sequentially shuts them down.

15 posted on 11/27/2017 3:56:20 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: jazusamo

Good. Start firing a bunch now. We have enough regulators.


16 posted on 11/27/2017 3:58:16 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: jazusamo

Pocahontas herself proposed and ran this monstrosity in the beginning.


17 posted on 11/27/2017 3:59:06 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Well, if he uses more than one team, he can shut them down faster. I don’t care how he does it, as long as he does it.


18 posted on 11/27/2017 3:59:06 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass Cons legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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To: jazusamo

From the article:

“English and the White House duked it out in a federal courtroom in Washington before Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee recently approved by the Senate. Kelly gave government lawyers until tonight to file their opposition to Leandra English’s request for a temporary restraining order.”

So we have a “Trump Judge!” We will soon see if he was a good appointment. My bet is that his pressure on the DOJ was so that he can “quickly dismiss” English’ request for an injunction.


19 posted on 11/27/2017 3:59:50 PM PST by vette6387
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To: jazusamo
“It’s frightening to think about how little oversight Congress has over me now as I am the director.”

Precisely why the Democratics breathed life into this monstrosity and also why Fauxahontas cherishes it.

20 posted on 11/27/2017 4:01:23 PM PST by Kudsman ( Anyone to the Right of Stalin is a Far Right Wing candidate to the Far Left Wing Media.)
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