Trump nominates OMB official to lead CFPB amid attacks on watchdog agency

The White House has nominated Stuart Levenbach, a elder authoritative astatine the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to beryllium the manager of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).  An authoritative told The Hill the information is simply a “technical” determination designed to widen OMB Director Russell Vought’s tenure arsenic the agency’s acting director, and that…