MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Mick Mulvaney, who stepped down as Trump’s special envoy to Northern Ireland after the insurrection, called Trump’s comments that his supporters were ‘hugging and kissing’ police officers and posed ‘zero threat,’ despite widespread violence, ‘manifestly false.’ […] ‘It’s not right to say there was no risk, I don’t know how you can […]
Category: Mick Mulvaney
1/7/2021
MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, told CNBC on Thursday he has resigned as special U.S. envoy to Northern Ireland… ‘Those who choose to stay, and I have talked with some of them, are choosing to stay because they’re worried the president might put someone worse in,’ Mulvaney said. […]
12/21/2018
BORDER/MEXICO/MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Incoming White House acting-chief of staff Mick Mulvaney once called President Donald Trump’s views on a border wall and immigration ‘simplistic’ and ‘absurd and almost childish.’ A physical barrier would not stop undocumented immigrants from crossing the Mexican border and ranchers at the border say they don’t need a fence, Mulvaney […]
12/19/2018
JOHN KELLY/MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “Outgoing White House chief of staff John Kelly tried and failed to bring a military discipline to the West Wing. Mick Mulvaney doesn’t plan to try. Mulvaney will approach the job far differently than Kelly, according to six sources close to the Trump aide and Republicans close to […]
12/17/2018
MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “Incoming White House acting-chief of staff Mick Mulvaney once said Donald Trump’s past words and actions would disqualify him from becoming president in an ‘ordinary universe.’ Mulvaney made the comments in a previously unreported October 2016 radio interview in which he also said Trump is not a role model […]
12/14/2018
MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “Mick Mulvaney will become the acting White House chief of staff at the end of the year, President Donald Trump announced in a tweet on Friday [12-14-18]. Mulvaney will not resign as director of the Office of Management and Budget while he is acting White House chief of staff, […]
12/14/2018
MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “President Donald Trump has announced his final choice in the chief of staff sweepstakes: Budget Director Mick Mulvaney. The announcement, made predictably via Twitter on Friday [12-14-18], ends more than a week of ‘Apprentice’-like scrambling to figure out who would replace outgoing Chief of Staff John Kelly. Nick Ayers […]
3/13/2018
CABINET/ETHICS/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICK MULVANEY: “When Mick Mulvaney left Congress to join President Donald Trump’s Cabinet in early 2017, he kept his re-election bank account alive and has spent more than $50,000 from it since, including donations to several Republican lawmakers the White House was lobbying. A watchdog group and a former Federal Election Commission official say […]
2/12/2018
BUDGET/CONSUMER PROTECTION/MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Monday [2-12-18] further detailed its vision to change the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, proposing that the regulator get less funding and fewer enforcement powers along with an overhauled mission that is friendlier to companies. In the CFPB’s new five-year strategic plan, the administration articulated the thinking […]
2/1/2018
CONSUMER PROTECTION/LEGAL/MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has revamped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s lending-discrimination operations, an agency spokesman said Thursday, the latest step in a broad review of the bureau’s activities under its new director. The changes place the consumer-finance regulator’s Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity under the direct control of […]
1/23/2018
BUDGET/CONSUMER PROTECTION/MICK MULVANEY: “Mick Mulvaney, the White House budget director, spent the weekend managing the shutdown of the federal government. On Tuesday [1-23-18], he turned his attention back to his secondary job running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a government agency he would probably shut down if he could. In a 1,118 word mission statement […]
12/4/2017
CONSUMER PROTECTION/CYBERWAR/MICK MULVANEY: “The Trump administration’s interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said he has frozen the agency’s collection of personal information due to cybersecurity concerns, a step in changing policies criticized by the financial industry. Mick Mulvaney, who is splitting his time as acting CFPB director and the White House’s budget chief, […]
11/29/2017
CONSUMER PROTECTION/MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge on Tuesday [11-28-17] sided with the White House in the battle over control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saying he wouldn’t stop the Trump administration from running the agency. An Obama-era official, Leandra English, had argued she was the CFPB’s rightful leader until a permanent successor […]
11/27/2017
BUDGET/CONSUMER PROTECTION/MICK MULVANEY: “The White House’s budget chief, Mick Mulvaney, arrived at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday [11-27-17] to assume the job of acting director after an Obama-era official sued to block the Trump administration from taking control of the agency. Mr. Mulvaney, carrying a bag from Dunkin’ Donuts, entered the building early […]
11/26/2017
CONSUMER PROTECTION/MICK MULVANEY/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An Obama-era official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued the Trump administration on Sunday [11-26-17] night to block budget director Mick Mulvaney from taking control of the agency. Leandra English, a career staffer appointed Friday to lead the CFPB by former director Richard Cordray, filed the lawsuit in federal […]
10/25/2017
BUDGET/CRISIS/MICK MULVANEY: “The White House plans to ask the U.S. Congress for a third round of disaster aid in mid-November as the costs continue to pour in for helping rebuild after hurricanes, but Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has told lawmakers he wants to see spending cuts elsewhere. Mulvaney said the federal government is assessing how […]
10/4/2017
BUDGET/MICK MULVANEY/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on Wednesday [10-4-17] appeared to dial back President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. would help wipe out Puerto Rico’s massive debt load… Trump on Tuesday sparked confusion when he told Fox News in an interview that people are ‘going to say […]
5/23/2017
BUDGET/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICK MULVANEY: “Finally some good news for President Trump: His new budget stands absolutely no chance of being enacted by Congress. Moving forward with the cuts outlined in the $4.1 trillion spending plan created by the budget director, Mick Mulvaney, formerly one of the most determined fiscal hawks in Congress, would no […]
5/22/2017
ETHICS/LOBBYING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICK MULVANEY: “The Trump administration, in a significant escalation of its clash with the government’s top ethics watchdog, has moved to block an effort to disclose any ethics waivers granted to former lobbyists who have work in the White House or federal agencies. The latest conflict came in recent days when the […]
5/18/2017
BUDGET/POLITICS/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICK MULVANEY: “To advance a tax overhaul this year, congressional Republicans first must clear a tricky hurdle: They need to agree on a budget. In many years, budget resolutions are superfluous or impossible because the House and Senate are controlled by different parties. In fact, in eight of the past 15 years, Congress didn’t […]
5/3/2017
BORDER/BUDGET/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICK MULVANEY: “White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said Tuesday [5-2-17] the White House plans to use monies in a border security spending increase to initiate construction of the border wall at the core of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. Mulvaney said the Trump administration will use several hundred million dollars of a $1.5 […]
04/11/2017
BUDGET/CABINET/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/MIKE MULVANEY: “The Trump administration on Wednesday [4-12-17] will lift the hiring freeze that it had imposed on the federal work force, even as it directs agencies to submit plans for personnel cuts and other restructuring moves to fit the budget blueprint released by President Trump last month. The new guidance, to […]
2/16/2017
BUDGET/CABINET/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICK MULVANEY: “A divided Senate confirmed Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina to be President Trump’s budget director on Thursday, installing in his cabinet a fiscal hawk who will play a central role in the administration’s plans to reshape the federal government. Mr. Mulvaney was confirmed to lead the White House Office of Management […]