Self-styled “fiscal hawk” Mick Mulvaney starves the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of the money it needs to help prevent Americans from being rendered helpless marks by the financial services industry.
But he lards lots and lots of surplus cash on favored friends he’s found sweatheart jobs for at the Bureau.
Stacy Cowley in The New York Times reports on the latest outrages committed by Mulvaney, who epitomizes Trump AND the GOP’s determination to make a mockery of self-governance in the United States.