Mick Mulvaney
In December 2018, President Donald Trump named Mick Mulvaney as his acting chief of staff. In 2017, Trump nominated Mulvaney to direct the Office of Management and Budget, and he was confirmed shortly after. Before, he served as the new U.S. Congressman for South Carolina's 5th District from 2010-2017. Mulvaney grew up in the Carolinas and went to Georgetown University. He attended law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later did additional course work at Harvard Business School.
His professional background includes law and real estate.
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Says Donald Trump "will not be profiting" from the G-7 summit meeting to be held at Trump’s Doral resort.
"Drug prices in this country actually came down last year for the first time in 50 years. That’s because Donald Trump’s president."
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"Every single (health care) plan that this White House has ever put forward since Donald Trump was elected covered pre-existing conditions."
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On whether higher federal deficits are acceptable.
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"They voted for (a border wall) in 2006. Then-Senator Obama voted for it. Sen. Schumer voted for it. Sen. Clinton voted for it."
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"There's no demonstrable evidence they (after-school programs that feed kids) are helping kids do better at school."
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The House Republican health care "plan doesn't get rid of Medicaid expansion."
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"If the CBO was right about Obamacare to begin with, there'd be 8 million more people on Obamacare today than there actually are. … Sometimes…
The "president has given 1,100 special waivers to his friends" for Obamacare.