Obama-Era Deputy Departs Consumer Bureau, Abandons Succession Lawsuit

In a victory for the Trump administration’s deregulatory push, the deputy head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has quit her position along with her lawsuit challenging the White House’s appointment of its own budget director as acting bureau chief. Leandra English, according to news reports on Friday, said through her attorney that she "will be stepping down from my position at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau early next week, having made this decision in light of the recent nomination of a new director.” President Trump, who last year took the unusual step of assigning Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney to temporarily double as CFPB chief, in June nominated former Senate staffer and homeland security specialist Kathy Kraninger to be the permanent replacement for original CFPB director Richard Cordray, now a candidate for governor in Ohio.