Posted on 06/07/2018 9:47:24 AM PDT by MaxistheBest
It’s an agency that you wouldn’t think would be in the news much, but the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau became another front in the war against the Trump administration for the Left. Now, acting director Mick Mulvaney has just fired the entire 25-member advisory board, which was starting to criticize the front office. Last night, Mulvaney told its members that they were being replaced. You’re fired, as Trump would say. It’s a purge, some late spring-cleaning but one that could bring this administration into conflict with congressional Democrats (via WaPo):
Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, fired the agency’s 25-member advisory board Wednesday, days after some of its members criticized his leadership of the watchdog agency.
The CFPB said it will revamp the Consumer Advisory Board, known as the CAB, in the fall with all new members.
The panel has traditionally played an influential role in advising the CFPB’s leadership on new regulations and policies. But some members, who include prominent consumer advocates, academics and industry executives, began to complain that Mulvaney was ignoring them and making unwise decisions about the agency’s future.
On Monday, 11 CAB members held a news conference and criticized Mulvaney for, among other things, canceling legally required meetings with the group.
On Wednesday, group members were notified that they were being replaced — and that they could not reapply for spots on the new board.
In a statement, the agency’s spokesman, John Czwartacki, took a final swipe at the group. “The outspoken members of the Consumer Advisory Board seem more concerned about protecting their taxpayer funded junkets to Washington, D.C., and being wined and dined by the Bureau than protecting consumers,” he said.
Last year, then- CFPB Director Richard Cordray left to launch his anticipated gubernatorial candidacy in Ohio. The vacancy was created and President Trump had the right to fill it, so he picked Director of The Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney. Liberals thought Leandra English, the deputy director for CFPB, would now helm the ship. Not the case. It created a very awkward situation; where both English and Mulvaney were at one point sending emails and instructions to staff under the “acting director” title. It was an attempted coup, as some would say.
Kimberley Strassel ✔ @KimStrassel The entire CFPB coup attempt by Cordray/English shows the utter contempt liberals have for rule of law, and reminds us the importance of a qualified federal bench.
In the end, Mulvaney won out, with the courts ruling that the Trump White House could fill the vacancy, though English filed a lawsuit to block him from assuming the position. Still, there’s consternation with some within the CFPB, as a group of disgruntled losers, calling themselves “Dumbledore’s Army,” who reportedly communicate with each other on encrypted devices.
English’s lawsuit is still ongoing, with reports that the work involved occurred on government time, while a federal judge quashed another legal challenge to Mulvaney’s appointment by a federal credit union in New York City last February.
Mick Mulvaney is Presidents Trump's hit man.
Do this in every single Federal agency.
Do away with the CFPB entirely. Save $600 million.
Board should be shut down. Next commie in office will just stuff it w/their folks.
Oh, my. Not conflict with the Democrats!
Mulvaney ROCKS! I’m sure Obammy and Fauxcahontas Warren are grief stricken that one of their dreams of controlling the economy of the U.S. through decrees from unelected political appointees in the CFPB has run aground.
CFPB is the quintessential deep state organization- stacked with insiders and spouses of insiders since its inception. Good for Mulvaney!
That said, consumer financial protection is still desirable to protect us from bad players. The safety mechanism was already in place in various agencies, but the CFPB was a pure power grab by Obama and Pocahontas.
Now that is winning big!!
Now watch these traitors hire a lib attorney and get a Federal judge to suspend the mass firing.
We win. They whine. Happy dance and wine and dine.
Nice, but its better to do away with the Bureau entirely.
Now it just sits there, sucking money - waiting for the next Obama to come along and fill it with radicals
LOL...that was the line that caught me too...gosh, we sure wouldn't want the administration to be in conflict with the democrats!
Somewhere a fake indian senator weeps.
Winning!
MAGA
CFPB is the quintessential deep state organization- stacked with insiders and spouses of insiders since its inception. Good for Mulvaney!
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Exactly. Jesse Jackson was envious of those bastards.
Winning!!
Send Mulvaney to Sessions and Rosenstiens offices next!
Fire EVERY employee of the unconstitutional CFPB and then defund and eliminate the agency once we win the Senate. The SCOTUS has ALREADY said its structure is unconstitutional.
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