text: Rival appointments set up showdown to lead agency | TheHill
  By Sylvan Lane and Tristan Lejeune - 11/24/17 07:51 PM EST
  President Trump on Friday announced that he is appointing Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney Mick MulvaneyTrump's relocation of the Bureau of Land Management was part of a familiar Republican playbook Jan. 6 committee issues latest round of subpoenas for rally organizers The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Alibaba - To vote or not? Pelosi faces infrastructure decision MORE as acting director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB), setting up a potential fight over the agency's future.
  The conflicting promotion from Cordray and appointment from Trump sets up a fight with little clear precedent, as there are now two acting CFPB heads. It's the latest challenge to the CFPB's standing as an independent agency.
  The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, the financial reform law which created the CFPB, established the deputy director position to lead the bureau between permanent directors.
  Cordray cited the specific provision of Dodd-Frank that lays out the succession process in his announcement to CFPB employees. The deputy director position had previously been filled by David Silberman in an acting capacity.
  In a statement sent out just over an hour after Mulvaney's appointment was announced, the White House said it would be holding a conference call with reporters on the designation on Saturday morning.