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Donald Trump's choice for agency head leads to clashes

The move was seen as an effort to delay Trump from appointing his own director, whose confirmation could take months

Mick Mulvaney
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TARA SIEGEL BERNARD | NYT
President Trump on Friday named his budget director as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, moving to take control of the agency hours after its departing leader had taken steps to install his own choice for acting chief.

By the end of the night, an agency born of the financial meltdown — and one Republicans have tried to kill from the start — had dueling directors, and there was little sense of who actually would be in charge Monday morning.

The bureaucratic standoff began Friday afternoon when Richard Cordray, the Obama-appointed leader of the bureau, abruptly announced

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