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

The White House has nominated Stuart Levenbach, a senior official at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to be the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).  An official told The Hill the nomination is a “technical” move designed to extend OMB Director Russell Vought’s tenure as the agency’s acting director, and that…