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Clash For Control Of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Heads To Court

CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney testified before the Senate on the same day AS another CFPB employee appeared in court to argue that Mulvaney had been unlawfully installed as its chief.
Mick Mulvaney arrives at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Nov. 27, 2017, after being named director by President Trump. Mulvaney's appointment is being challenged in court by Leandra English, who had been appointed to that position by outgoing Director Richard Cordray.

As the current Consumer Financial Protection Bureau head sparred with the agency's champion, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in a congressional hearing, a legal battle over who gets to run the bureau escalated in a Washington, D.C., courtroom on Thursday.

White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney is running the consumer bureau and . But the deputy director of that same agency, Leandra English, is challenging

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