A top Republican demanded answers Wednesday on how Leandra English, the woman Democrats are pushing to be acting director of the government�s top consumer advocacy agency, managed to �burrow� into her job and outlast the Obama administration.
Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Ms. English held a political job at the Office of Personnel Management but managed to convert herself to a career civil service position early this year at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The process is called �burrowing,� and it is generally frowned upon, though it does happen somewhat regularly.
In Ms. English�s case, however, it�s taken on a higher profile now that she�s involved in a major lawsuit arguing that she is the rightful acting director of the CFPB, rather than Mick Mulvaney, the man President Trump named to the job last Friday.
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