“I am just finding out about the powers I have as acting director and they would frighten most of you,” he said. “The White House should abandon any effort to circumvent the succession process.”Mulvaney took over the agency Monday morning, firing off a memo instructing staff to disregard directives from English. “Please disregard any instructions you receive from Ms. English in her presumed capacity as Acting Director. English and the White House duked it out in a federal courtroom in Washington before Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee recently approved by the Senate. Cordray named English as his temporary successor, but Trump said it was his decision who would run the agency and named Mulvaney.

Source: Fox News November 27, 2017 22:10 UTC