Despite legal dispute over his job, Mick Mulvaney waltzes in to first day as CFPB acting director with donuts

Mick Mulvaney.
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Mick Mulvaney started a new job on Monday under rather unusual circumstances: A legal battle is swirling around whether his new job title — acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — actually belongs to him. But that didn't stop Mulvaney from coming to his first day of work with a peace offering: donuts.

As head the Office of Management and Budget, Mulvaney has pushed for financial deregulation and heavy spending cuts. A Politico profile written over the summer quotes Mulvaney as saying, "I don't think anyone in this administration is more of a right-wing conservative than I am." He's also previously called the CFPB "a joke," and during his confirmation hearing said the agency was run by "essentially a one-person dictator." At least the new dictator likes donuts.

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Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.