US consumer bureau and Trump in tussle over who controls the watchdog
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COME Monday morning, who will be running the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Over the weekend, the answer wasn't clear.
Trump administration officials on Saturday defended the US president's legal authority to name his budget director, Mick Mulvaney, as acting head of the bureau - an independent watchdog agency that has been an obstacle this year to President Donald Trump's efforts to eliminate or loosen many business regulations.
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