The Mulvaney administration
As Erik has said, Alex Acosta may well have been able to survive his coddling of pedophiles and their enablers had he been a more aggressive union buster:
Mick Mulvaney’s battles with Alexander Acosta began almost immediately.
Weeks after he was named acting White House chief of staff, Mulvaney summoned the labor secretary for a tense January encounter that became known inside the West Wing as “the woodshed meeting.”
Mulvaney told Acosta in blunt terms that the White House believed he was dragging his feet on regulation rollbacks desired by business interests and that he was on thin ice as a result, according to advisers and a person close to the White House. Soon after, Acosta proposed a spate of business-friendly rules on overtime pay and other policies.
But it wasn’t enough to save Acosta from Mulvaney’s ire — and helps explain why the former federal prosecutor had such tepid administration support last week as he resigned over his handling of a high-profile sex-crimes case more than a decade ago.
The rest of the article details the many other ways in which Secretary of Everything Mulvaney is gutting regulations. I’m not sure how many more blows the neoliberal order can take.