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Around the same time, Leandra English, the agency's other acting director, sent an all-staff email thanking employees for their service. White House Memo Justifying CFPB Takeover Was Written by Payday Lender Attorney - The lawyer who wrote the Office of Legal Counsel memo supporting the Trump administration's viewpoint that the president can appoint Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau represented At the CFPB, two acting directors show up to take command; one brings doughnuts, the other well-wishes - As a Republican congressman, Mick Mulvaney called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau a "joke" and said he wished it didn't exist.
Doug Jones has given Alabama Democrats their best chance at winning a Senate race there since 1992 -- when Sen. Richard Shelby was elected and, shortly thereafter, switched parties and became a Republican. Jones made his name as a prosecutor who in the late 1990s and early 2000s successfully led the case against two of the Ku Klux Klan members responsible for a 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four African-American girls.
More than a week after border patrol agent Rogelio Martinez was mortally wounded -- and days after his burial -- Martinez's family still has no idea how he died. Several officials have called the west Texas incident an "attack" or "ambush."
The government official President Donald Trump wants to pass over as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with his own budget chief is asking a federal court to block the president's appointment. Leandra English, who was elevated to the position of interim director of the CFPB by its outgoing director, filed a lawsuit Sunday night in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
President Donald Trump, left, waves as he walks with first lady Melania Trump, right, and their son Barron Trump on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2017, after returning from Palm Springs, Fla., where they spent the Thanksgiving holiday. less President Donald Trump, left, waves as he walks with first lady Melania Trump, right, and their son Barron Trump on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2017, after returning from ... more WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Monday changes to the Republican tax bill are coming, as he looks to win over holdout GOP senators in an effort to pass the package by the end of the year.
U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones shrugged off President Donald Trump's criticisms on Sunday, following a series of tweets in which Trump said that electing the Democrat as Alabama's next senator "would be a disaster." A White House official says President Donald Trump will not campaign for Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore before the Dec. 12 special election.
President Donald Trump joked about challenging a Central New York man, who is a member of the U.S. Coast Guard, to an arm wresting contest. Trump met with members of the Coast Guard on Thanksgiving at the Lake Worth Inlet Station in Riviera Beach, Fla.
President Donald Trump will not campaign for Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore before the Dec. 12 special election, a White House official said Monday. Despite public statements in which he raised doubts about the accounts of women who have accused Moore of sexual misconduct, Trump will not to travel to Alabama on Moore's behalf, said the official, who was not authorized to discuss the president's plans publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
One of the next members of President Donald Trump's administration to enter the Russia investigation spotlight finds himself in a particularly awkward spot: He's the top lawyer at the White House. Don McGahn is expected to be interviewed in the coming weeks in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, along with communications director Hope Hicks and Josh Raffel, who handles press-related inquiries for White House senior adviser Jared Kushner.
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Barack Obama may no longer be the President of the United States but he still rules people's hearts and especially Time Magazine's. The former president has been pictured on the cover of the iconic magazine at least 29 times and named its "Person of the Year" twice.
President Donald Trump said electing a Democrat as Alabama's next senator "would be a disaster," as the president tried to steer the Alabama race toward partisan legislative concerns and away from allegations of sexual misconduct against Republican Roy Moore. While Republican Senate leaders have criticized their party's nominee, Trump plunged into the Alabama Senate race with a pair of tweets Sunday bashing Democrat Doug Jones.
Bopha Malone, a vice president at Enterprise Bank in Lowell who came to the United States as a Cambodian refugee when she was 9, told The Sun she is running for Tsongas' seat in Congress, becoming the 12th Democrat in the race. "My parents instilled in me the value of hard work and perseverance, and through hard work, I was able to have my American dream," Malone, 36, said.
President Donald Trump said Sunday that electing a Democrat as Alabama's next senator "would be a disaster," making clear the success of his legislative agenda outweighs widespread GOP repulsion at the prospect of seating Republican Roy Moore, who is dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct. The allegations, including claims that the 70-year-old Moore sexually assaulted or molested two teenage girls while he was in his 30s, have made the Dec. 12 election a referendum on "the character of the country" that transcends partisan politics, said GOP Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, as the party establishment cringed at Trump's latest intervention in the closely contested race.
Back to the grind: Trump, Barron and a windswept Melania arrive back at White House after five days in Florida for Thanksgiving Terminally ill mother who killed her disabled daughter to prevent her 'from ending up in an institution' is found dead alongside pills and a suicide note which said she was 'tired' of fighting PICTURED: Naya Rivera mugshot released after actress charged with domestic battery as it's revealed star was 'arguing over child' with husband Donald Trump is 'furious' with Ivanka for saying Roy Moore is 'going to hell for preying on children' and doubles down on his support for the embattled Senate candidate Shocking new details emerge in mysterious death of American boy, 16, who was raped and murdered in Paraguay after drinking mushroom tea with friends on luxury estate Civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton says he will help jailed rapper Meek Mill like he helped Tupac ... (more)
The deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued the Trump administration on Sunday to block the president's appointment of Mick Mulvaney as interim director of the agency. The deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued the Trump administration on Sunday to block the president's appointment of Mick Mulvaney as interim director of the agency.
A battle over who should run the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the coming months was set for court as Obama-era holdovers sought to maintain their control over a powerful watchdog which President Donald Trump is seeking to curb. File Photo - Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney waits to testify before a Senate Budget Committee hearing on FY2018 Budget Proposals on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 25, 2017.
President Donald Trump said Sunday that electing a Democrat as Alabama's next senator "would be a disaster," making clear the success of his legislative agenda outweighs widespread GOP repulsion at the prospect of seating Republican Roy Moore, who is dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct.
President Donald Trump's appointment of his budget director as interim director of a consumer financial protection agency championed by Democrats was challenged in a lawsuit filed in federal court Sunday night.
President Donald Trump said Sunday that electing a Democrat as Alabama's next senator "would be a disaster," making clear the success of his legislative agenda outweighs widespread GOP repulsion at the prospect of seating Republican Roy Moore, who is dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct. The allegations, including claims that the 70-year-old Moore sexually assaulted or molested two teenage girls while he was in his 30s, have made the Dec. 12 election a referendum on "the character of the country" that transcends partisan politics, said GOP Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, as the party establishment cringed at Trump's latest intervention in the closely contested race.