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capital source The unfolding race to succeed outgoing US Representative Niki Tsongas in the Third Congressional District has created a web of odd alliances and pitted former colleagues in arms against one another.   capital source A host of other party leaders are now calling for Roy Moore to be barred from the Senate if he’s elected.  CAPITAL SOURCE On Wednesday, the council’s first meeting since the Nov.

Unlike his predecessor, who demonstrated greater leniency, the president is targeting immigrants whose only infraction is being in the US without permission.  Republican holdouts say the current version of the bill favors corporations over other businesses.  It’s unclear who’ll be in charge of the consumer regulator’s more than 1,000 employees when they go to work Monday.   Bannon is telling people he’s not coming after mainstream Republicans in the House the way he’s targeting senators with anti-establishment disrupters in primaries.

Unlike his predecessor, who demonstrated greater leniency, the president is targeting immigrants whose only infraction is being in the US without permission.  Republican holdouts say the current version of the bill favors corporations over other businesses.  It’s unclear who’ll be in charge of the consumer regulator’s more than 1,000 employees when they go to work Monday.   Bannon is telling people he’s not coming after mainstream Republicans in the House the way he’s targeting senators with anti-establishment disrupters in primaries.

Unlike his predecessor, who demonstrated greater leniency, the president is targeting immigrants whose only infraction is being in the US without permission.  Republican holdouts say the current version of the bill favors corporations over other businesses.  It’s unclear who’ll be in charge of the consumer regulator’s more than 1,000 employees when they go to work Monday.   Bannon is telling people he’s not coming after mainstream Republicans in the House the way he’s targeting senators with anti-establishment disrupters in primaries.

President Trump on Saturday defended his decision to appoint an acting director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) despite the outgoing head naming a temporary successor, calling the agency a "total disaster" under officials from the Obama administration. "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, has been a total disaster as run by the previous Administrations pick," Trump tweeted. "Financial Institutions have been devastated and unable to properly serve the public.

The Justice Department released a memo on Saturday arguing that it is well within President Trump's authority to appoint White House budget chief MORE as the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). In a memo dated Nov.

Anger at Robert Mueller is burning white-hot on the right and in conservative media, where calls for the special counsel to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election have reached a fever pitch.

President Trump has largely held his fire on Mueller, even as the probe into his campaign officials has intensified. White House lawyers are hopeful that the investigation will end soon and absolve the president and his inner circle of wrongdoing.
    

Senior White House officials insisted Saturday that President Trump is legally allowed to appoint an acting director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which is an independent agency. Officials say Trump has the right to supersede an appointment by the exiting director. The officials called Trump’s appointment of Office of Management and Budget Director MORE to lead the CFPB “a typical, routine move” in line with years of precedent. ADVERTISEMENT Trump appointed Mulvaney on Frid