Prez aide gives staff big raises

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S appointee to oversee the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has given big pay raises to his deputies, according to salary records.

Mick Mulvaney has hired at least eight political appointees since he took over in November. Four make $259,500 a year and one takes home $239,595. That’s more than the salaries of Congress, cabinet secretaries and nearly all federal judges. The salary records were released as part of a request from The Associated Press.

While most of the federal government follows a universal pay scale, some agencies and departments have waivers to use their own. One of those is the Federal Reserve, of which the bureau is a part.

Mulvaney, as Trump’s budget director, has long railed against government spending. In a headscratching statement, a CFPB spokesperson blamed Richard Cordray, who ran the agency under President Barack Obama.