While everyone was sleeping off their turkey hangovers on Friday, high drama was going down in DC. That’s when the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray, stepped down from his position. On his way out the door, he named CFPB Chief of Staff Leandra English as deputy director, intending that she would be acting director.

President Trump, of course, had other ideas. He named White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, a CFPB critic, to be interim director until a replacement is nominated and approved by the Senate.

So who is in charge? Depends who you ask. Democrats say it should be English. The text of the law says that the “deputy director shall be appointed by the director; and serve as acting director in the absence or unavailability of the director.” The Trump administration disagrees. They say the 1998 Federal Vacancies Reform Act gives Trump the power to make temporary appointments to agencies like this.