Republican lawmakers move to slash CFPB employees’ pay 

One of Mick Mulvaney’s first actions after he took over as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was to institute a hiring freeze, stipulating that the bureau could not hire any new employees for at least 30 days. But if two of Mulvaney’s former Congressional colleagues have their way, the CFPB’s current employees could be left feeling a freeze of their own – vastly reduced salaries.