the monarchy works. who is running the consumer financial protection bureau. is that depends on whom you ask. the is it president trump s choice mulvaney, or leandra english, the hand picked successor to the outgoing chief. last night english filed a lawsuit against the president seeking to block mulvaney s appoint. her suit argues the dodd-frank wall street reform law infights her to the job. but the p white house said the federal vacancies reform act gives the president the right. in context. here s what mulvaney said in 2014 about the agency the president now wants him to lead. the place is just a wonderful example of how a bureaucracy will function if it has no accountability to anybody. it turns up being a joke. that s what the cfpb really has