Senator says embattled CFPB official got her job in 'flawed' and rushed process, wants probe https://t.co/IolHQlEo9D— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 4, 2018
A top Republican senator is raising questions about how an agency official at the center of a high-stakes power struggle with the White House landed her job, claiming her application was hastily approved as part of a flawed vetting process shortly after President Trumps election.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., head of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is now asking the U.S. Office of Special Counsel to investigate Leandra Englishs move to burrow into a career position at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau switching from a political post at another agency in a shift that may have helped her stayed employed in the government. Burrowing is a term used to describe political appointees shifting to career positions.
Fox-English was the deputy director tapped last November by outgoing Obama appointee Richard Cordray to replace him at helm of the bureau, an Elizabeth Warren-touted agency which Republicans have accused of over-regulating lenders and operating with little oversight. Within hours, Trump named White House budget director Mick Mulvaney as acting bureau director. This prompted a lawsuit by English which a federal judge effectively dismissed, saying that denying a president the authority to make his own pick raises significant constitutional questions.