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DeVos, Rigged Polls, and Quitting Bureaucrats

Explain It to Me

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Is the EPA in the Crossfire?

The people who Elizabeth Warren originally recruited to stand up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are in a different kind of position. I would think it would depend sort of on how much confidence they have that they will be able to do their work. A couple years ago, four or five, I did an exit interview with a lifetime career official who moved into a political appointment actually at the end of its career at the Education Department. And so maybe there's a survivor's bias toward people who want to put their head down and do their work."

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