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=trump coup: klukowski neomi rao, russ voughtGorsuch personally thanked Paoletta by name when he was sworn in. Paoletta left Pence’s office not long thereafter and joined the OMB at the beginning of 2018 at the invitation of Mick Mulvaney, who was heading the budget office at the time and is now acting White House chief of staff.=<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/mulvaney-trump-rip-documents-toilet/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/mulvaney-trump-rip-documents-toilet/</a>=5/20 kid killer <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/trumps-epa-moves-jettison-any-regulation-of-a-chemical-linked-to-child-brain-damage-report/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/trumps-epa-moves-jettison-any-regulation-of-a-chemical-linked-to-child-brain-damage-report/</a>no lnxtrump’s EPA moves jettison any regulation of a chemical linked to child brain damage: report[ June 3, 2019: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks at the National Press Club.Written by Julia Conley / Common Dreams May 15, 2020Environmental campaigners vowed to fight President Donald Trump’s EPA Thursday after the agency said it would propose that the rocket-fuel chemical perchlorate does not need to be regulated, despite its links to cognitive damage in fetal and child development.According to the New York Times, the EPA plans to tell the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that it is “not in the public interest” to regulate the chemical at all, a year after the agency recommended the allowable amount in drinking water be limited to 56 parts per billion (ppb).The 2019 proposal was already 10 to 50 times higher than what water safety experts recommend, the Times reported.The new recommendation defies a court order, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) said, which was issued in 2018 after the group sued over the Obama administration’s inaction on regulating perchlorate....<div> </div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>PO'd at him for a while (get over it") --> mark meadons needs a job b/c fixed gerry?!</div><div>320 an</div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/trump-announces-mick-mulvaney-is-out-as-chief-of-staff-to-be-replaced-by-a-congressional-ally/" rel="bookmark" title="Trump announces Mick Mulvaney is out as chief of staff — to be replaced by a congressional ally" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.4; display: block;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px" font-weight="font-weight" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color" important="important">trump announces Mick Mulvaney is out as chief of staff — to be replaced by a congressional ally</a></div><div></div>==<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/how-trumps-top-aide-unleashed-predatory-lenders-and-betrayed-the-working-class/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/how-trumps-top-aide-unleashed-predatory-lenders-and-betrayed-the-working-class/</a>At the Washington Monthly, and here at Political Animal, we’ve written from <a title="time" href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/28/why-the-trump-administration-wants-to-destroy-the-cfpb/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">time</a> to <a title="time" href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/06/07/mick-mulvaney-liquidates-the-cfpbs-advisory-boards/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">time</a> about the Trump administration’s <a title="efforts to defang" href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/06/08/the-cfpb-is-making-government-more-accountable-the-gop-wants-to-stop-it/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">efforts to defang</a> the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but none of us has done as comprehensive a job of it as <a title="Nicholas Confessore" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/nicholas-confessore" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Nicholas Confessore</a>. His new <a title="piece" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/magazine/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-trump.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">piece</a> in the New York Times Magazine focuses on Mick Mulvaney’s time as the CFPB’s acting director

I often hear liberals wonder aloud how so many low-to-moderate income Americans can support the Republican Party when it is clearly not in their financial interests to do so, and nowhere is that more clear than on the issues surrounding the CFPB. Confessore demonstrates this very ably by doing a deep-dive into the payday lending/short-terms loans industry.

In the following excerpt, he explains how the payday loan industry rose in influence and power during the Bush administration by making loans to people who (they hoped) would not be able to pay back the money. The CFPB was the brainchild of Elizabeth Warren, who was convinced of its necessity by her research into consumer debt

>[Elizabeth] Warren and other consumer advocates argued that payday lenders built their industry on a similar sleight of hand. They marketed themselves as lenders of last resort, offering emergency loans for a broken-down car or an unexpected medical bill. But according to Nick Bourke, a former financial-services consultant who now directs consumer-finance research at the Pew Charitable Trusts, what fed the industry’s growth were not emergency expenses but the increasingly unstable incomes of the working poor. As their hourly wages fluctuated at the whims of workplace-optimization software, payday-loan customers — <a title="typically white women earning around $30,000, according to Pew’s research" href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/video/2013/payday-loans-explained" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">typically white women earning around $30,000, according to Pew’s research</a> — borrowed to pay their rent or electric bills. The average customer paid $55 in fees to borrow $375, due on their next payday. But most found that they couldn’t afford to repay the loan after two weeks. They took out another loan to cover the first, and usually another.<div class="p4_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Consumer advocates called this cycle <a title="a “debt trap”" href="https://stopthedebttrap.org/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a “debt trap”</a> and argued that payday lenders, much like credit-card companies, disguised the true costs of their products. Store clerks emphasized the small-seeming fees and pushed customers to roll their old loans into new ones, so that the fees snowballed, eventually exceeding the cost of the original loan. While most banks made money by finding customers who could repay their debts on time, payday lenders made money by finding customers who couldn’t. “If borrowers repaid loans in just two weeks and walked away as advertised, lenders would go out of business,” Bourke says.
<div class="p5_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What really distinguishes the short-term loan industry from regular banks is precisely the focus on finding customers who will default. They’ve also historically been unregulated by the federal government and free to charge grossly usurious rates. Several states decided to regulate the industry at the end of the last decade, and some like North Carolina banned payday loans outright.

Naturally, there are some consumers who have good experiences taking out emergency loans, and it can work for someone with poor credit who genuinely needs to borrow money for a very short period of time. These feel-good stories are what the industry relies on to rationalize their predatory business model. The overall effect of the industry is ruinous, however, as it sucks up billions of dollars from the people least able to part with their money.<div class="p7_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The CFPB didn’t initially think that the payday loan industry would be a high priority for them. But that quickly changed once they opened their doors under their first director, Richard Cordray:<div class="p8_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border: none !important;">As the human and financial costs of the subprime-mortgage crash mounted, the new bureau was inundated with whistle-blower tips and consumer complaints. Cordray and his leadership team initially planned to focus on the biggest consumer-finance players, like mortgage lenders and credit-card companies; payday lenders were a relatively small industry compared with Wall Street. But it was growing quickly: The crisis had been good for business, pulling more middle-class families into the payday-loan market. And unlike banks, payday lenders were unregulated by the federal government. “It was affecting a lot of people at the margins who could least afford to run into trouble,” Cordray told me recently.<div class="p9_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In 2012, the C.F.P.B. began conducting supervisory exams of payday lenders, a process that required them to open up their offices and books, and sometimes yielded evidence of predatory lending for the bureau’s enforcement team to take up. A company called Ace Cash Express, investigators found, harassed overdue borrowers by using phony legal threats. The investigation yielded a potent illustration of the debt trap: Ace Cash’s training manual, which instructed employees to pressure borrowers into paying off overdue loans by taking out new ones, illustrated its customer-service doctrine with a graphic resembling a recycling symbol, with <a title="one “short-term” loan fueling the next in an endless loop of debt" href="https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes-action-against-ace-cash-express-for-pushing-payday-borrowers-into-cycle-of-debt/" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">one “short-term” loan fueling the next in an endless loop of debt</a>.<div class="p10_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div></blockquote>At first, the CFPB went after the most egregious examples of exploitative behavior they could find, and they also put an emphasis on online lenders. In 2015, they began developing a new rule to apply to the industry that they hoped would end the practice of making deliberately bad loans. Lenders would be scrutinized, and they would be expected to examine a borrower’s ability to repay a loan before granting them one. Systemic abuse of the system could lead to hefty fine and even criminal charges. Before the new rule could be implemented, however, Donald Trump surprisingly won the 2016 election.<div class="p11_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He then jammed Mick Mulvaney in as the interim replacement for Richard Cordray, and Mulvaney set about not only saving the payday lenders from oversight and regulation but cutting the teeth out of the entire bureau. He was so effective at this job that Trump was convinced to make him the White House chief of staff.<div class="p12_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All is not lost, and if a Democrat wins the presidency in 2020 the bureau may be salvageable as an advocate for working people. I imagine a President Elizabeth Warren would be especially invested in that outcome. It seems to me that if people grasped that the Republican Party is on the side of predatory lenders and against protecting people from fine-print scams and debt traps, that a lot of them would be less inclined to take their side because of cultural issues.<div class="p13_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The problem is getting them to understand this when there is not much effort going on to keep them focused on NFL players and scary immigrants and the War on Christmas.==<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/how-mick-mulvaney-became-the-most-dangerous-man-in-dc/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/how-mick-mulvaney-became-the-most-dangerous-man-in-dc/</a>Trump has been even Trumpier since the 2018 election, more erratic, more extreme, more out of control. That’s in very large part because his new minder, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, is <a title="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/us/politics/mick-mulvaney-homeland-security.html?login=email&auth=login-email" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">letting him run amok</a>. At least that’s what The New York Times speculates, and they make a good case.<div class="p1_5" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mulvaney was the only other person in the room when Kirstjen Nielsen was fired Sunday, the Times reports. He helped write her resignation letter. When Trump decided that Randolph D. Alles, the director of the Secret Service, had to go, Mulvaney was the one who carried the axe. Mulvaney was the one to tell Trump to ignore all the lawyers in his administration and go ahead and tell the courts to burn down the Affordable Care Act. As the Times puts it, “Trump has a chief of staff who has made it his job to encourage rather than restrain the president’s conservative instincts—to let Trump be Trump, in effect.”

Former Rep. Trey Gowdy, one of Mulvaney’s Freedom Caucus friends from the House says “I don’t think that [Mulvaney] sees the role of the chief of staff to alter the personality of the person he works for. […] They have a good relationship, but the president’s the boss.” And Mulvaney is a nihilist—he went to government to destroy it from within and who better to do that than a mentally unstable megalomaniac in the White House? Apparently this is fine with everyone in the White House because Mulvaney has “learned how to keep the Trump train running,” said Scott Reed, the top political adviser to the United States Chamber of Commerce, told the Times. Apparently there’s less infighting among staff with no one trying to keep Trump under control.<div class="p3_5" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The flip side of that was described by Sen. Chuck Schumer, leading Democrat in the Senate, who called out the “chaos” in the administration, and the “whimsical, erratic” behavior of Trump. “I hope that the president or some of the people around him will realize that his administration is far from a fine-tuned machine,” he said in a floor statement Tuesday. “It’s a slow-motion disaster machine that the American people see in action every day.” He’s not alone in the assessment. Republican old-timer, Sen. Richard Shelby, Appropriations Committee chairman, has complained bitterly of Mulvaney, calling him “the most dangerous man” in D.C.<div class="p4_5" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He’s the perfect agent of destruction, using Trump for his own goal of burning the whole structure of government down. He golfs with Trump, flatters him and calls him “boss,” and winds him up and watches him wreak havoc. And Trump doesn’t even recognize that he’s not the one calling the shots.=ref<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/us/politics/mick-mulvaney-homeland-security.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/us/politics/mick-mulvaney-homeland-security.html</a>Mick Mulvaney Tries Letting Trump Be Trump
By Peter Baker and Maggie HabermanApril 9, 2019
WASHINGTON — When President Trump met with his embattled homeland security secretary on Sunday to force her out after months of stormy eruptions over immigration policy, the only other person in the room was Mick Mulvaney, who made no effort to head off the final confrontation and instead helped draft the letter of resignation.
When Mr. Trump decided to get rid of his Secret Service director, officials said, Mr. Mulvaney delivered the message rather than try to talk the president out of it. When Mr. Trump considered whether to ask a court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act despite opposition from his own top legal advisers, Mr. Mulvaney’s response: Follow your gut.
In his first 100 days as the president’s acting chief of staff, Mr. Mulvaney has assumed a central role in Mr. Trump’s circle but one markedly different than the previous two occupants of his corner office. For the first time since taking office, Mr. Trump has a chief of staff who has made it his job to encourage rather than restrain the president’s conservative instincts — to let Trump be Trump, in effect.
A former congressman from South Carolina and a leader of the Tea Party movement, Mr. Mulvaney is not a product of the Republican establishment like Reince Priebus, the first chief of staff, or the military hierarchy, like John F. Kelly, the second. Instead, he arrived at the White House from the revolutionary wing of the conservative movement, whose goal even before Mr. Trump entered politics was to blow up what it considered a corrupt and liberal Washington.
“I don’t think that he sees the role of the chief of staff to alter the personality of the person he works for,” said former Representative Trey Gowdy, a friend and fellow South Carolina Republican who golfed with the president and Mr. Mulvaney last month. “They have a good relationship, but the president’s the boss.”
Some outsiders see the cascade of hard-line policy ventures, unorthodox appointments and high-level purges of recent days as a sign of Mr. Mulvaney’s expanding influence, assuming that he is pushing Mr. Trump to the right. But insiders call that a misconception, insisting that Mr. Mulvaney at most is pushing on an open door and otherwise is merely liberating Mr. Trump to pursue the courses he prefers.
The lesson Mr. Mulvaney took from the unhappy experiences of Mr. Priebus and Mr. Kelly — both of whom were cast out unceremoniously via Twitter or comments to reporters — was that Mr. Trump is not interested in being managed by aides who think they know better, and so he has tried to build a process that he thinks better serves the president.
To some Republicans who had become resigned to an ungovernable White House, Mr. Mulvaney has been a welcome presence, one who has tamped down some of the tribal rivalries that played out in vicious form through clandestine disclosures to the news media.
“I think he’s become an asset because he’s learned how to keep the Trump train running,” said Scott Reed, the top political adviser to the United States Chamber of Commerce. “A combination of managing the staff, raising the morale and limiting the leaking has made him a successful Trump chief of staff.”
But to his critics, including some Republicans, Mr. Mulvaney’s approach has unleashed the president in dangerous ways. After forcing a five-week government shutdown at the start of the year, Mr. Trump in recent days threatened to close the nation’s southern border, selected unconventional nominees for the Federal Reserve despite significant vetting issues and began clearing out the top ranks of the Department of Homeland Security.
In a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, lamented the “chaos” in the White House stemming from the president’s “whimsical, erratic” behavior.
“I hope that the president or some of the people around him will realize that his administration is far from a fine-tuned machine,” he said. “It’s a slow-motion disaster machine that the American people see in action every day.”
Even some Republicans on Capitol Hill hold Mr. Mulvaney in low regard, particularly senators who view him as a former congressman with little deal-making experience and scant inclination to learn. In recent days, some criticized the expanding homeland security purge while others complained that Mr. Mulvaney does not meet with them enough.
During tense negotiations amid the government shutdown earlier this year, Senator Richard C. Shelby, the Alabama Republican and Appropriations Committee chairman, complained bitterly about Mr. Mulvaney’s penchant for undoing weeks of bipartisan work with a quick comment to Mr. Trump in the Oval Office. Mr. Shelby told Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the committee’s top Democrat, that Mr. Mulvaney was “the most dangerous man” in Washington, according to three people familiar with the exchange.
Mr. Shelby has not repeated that in public, but when a reporter on Capitol Hill asked him about Mr. Mulvaney last week, the senator tartly interrupted to offer a correction.“You mean the acting chief of staff?” he said before walking away.
Mr. Trump has yet to formally remove the “acting” before the title, but after more than three months Mr. Mulvaney shrugs that off, telling others that everyone who works for the president serves at his pleasure and therefore is acting.
Indeed, Mr. Mulvaney is operating not as a temporary caretaker, but as someone who expects to stay for a while, bringing to the West Wing a clutch of aides from the Office of Management and Budget, where he served as director. He has engaged in team-building exercises like retreats at Camp David, most recently last week to discuss efforts to create a replacement for the Affordable Care Act.
He is generally liked by the staff, which recoiled at Mr. Kelly’s military style. Mr. Kelly made clear that he hated the job, muttering out loud when he left on many evenings that he might not return the next day. By contrast, Mr. Mulvaney tells people that he loves the job, an attitude that allies said has improved morale.
Even some Democrats praised Mr. Mulvaney for reaching out. Representative John Yarmuth of Kentucky, chairman of the House Budget Committee, said his relations with Mr. Mulvaney were “excellent” and noted that he was invited to Camp David for a trust-building visit.
“Mick’s never going to resolve Trump’s erratic behavior,” Mr. Yarmuth said. “He’s never going to be able to do anything about that. But over all, I think he’s been a much more effective chief than Kelly has.”
Still, Mr. Mulvaney has been criticized internally, by colleagues unwilling to be identified, for creating his own fief. And he has been faulted for appealing to Mr. Trump’s nativist instincts and desire to cater to his hard-core political base.
Mr. Trump does not share Mr. Mulvaney’s special passion for hawkish fiscal policies but signed off on a largely symbolic budget that incorporated some of those priorities, only to overrule his aides when proposed funding cuts to Special Olympics were publicized.
“The biggest problem I sense with Mulvaney is because of his own politics, he tends to push Trump further to the right than even Trump might want to go,” said Leon E. Panetta, who held the job under President Bill Clinton. “As chief of staff, your greater responsibility is to present to the president the options for what he should decide.”
Mr. Mulvaney has told people that he strives to do just that, ensuring that the president hears different points of view. During the deliberations over the Affordable Care Act, allies noted that Mr. Mulvaney made sure that Mr. Trump heard objections lodged by the Justice Department and White House counsel.
While Mr. Mulvaney has kept the essence of Mr. Kelly’s policy-development procedure, he consults with Mr. Trump earlier in the process to get his direction, rather than wait until the end. Although he was known as a firebrand in the House who stood up to Republican leaders, he is deferential to Mr. Trump, calling him “boss,” while making a point of spending off hours on the golf course with him.
In the West Wing, Mr. Mulvaney is seen as someone who knows when to fight battles, as opposed to Mr. Kelly, who often found himself at odds with Mr. Trump’s adult children and informal advisers. He does not try to manage access to the president as Mr. Kelly did. Rather than fight Mr. Trump’s natural desire to meet and talk with a variety of people, Mr. Mulvaney has taken a decentralized approach that he calls chief of staff by committee, empowering different advisers to provide the president their guidance.
It is a style most associated with Presidents Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter, each of whom resisted having a strong chief of staff at first, preferring what was called a “hub and spoke” model in which many people had access to the Oval Office. Both eventually abandoned the approach, concluding that it did not work, and Mr. Mulvaney eschews the hub-and-spoke term to avoid associations with those failed experiments.People close to the president say Mr. Mulvaney gets too much credit — or blame — for Mr. Trump’s rightward turn on policy. Mr. Trump’s instinct is to appeal to core supporters who he fears will leave him, and he is the one who wants to demonstrate to them that he is continuing a hard line on immigration.David Bossie, president of the conservative group Citizens United and a former deputy campaign manager for Mr. Trump, said the president was adjusting to a changing political environment.“The president is responding to that new world order and that’s the mind-set,” Mr. Bossie said. “He is under siege by congressional Democrats, and that is how he’s operating — under siege.”
And Mr. Mulvaney is in the trench next to him.
Glenn Thrush, Katie Rogers and Emily Cochrane contributed reporting.
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A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: At White House, Gatekeeper Lets Trump Be Trump. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/trump-orders-mulvaney-to-fire-secret-service-director-as-part-of-near-systemic-purge-of-key-national-security-personnel-cnn/" rel="bookmark" title="Trump orders Mulvaney to fire Secret Service director as part of ‘near-systemic purge’ of key national security personnel: CNN" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.4; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump orders Mulvaney to fire Secret Service director as part of ‘near-systemic purge’ of key national security personnel: CNN</a>===<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/the-freedom-caucus-white-house-coup-is-officially-complete/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/the-freedom-caucus-white-house-coup-is-officially-complete/</a>If there’s one thing that really sums up just how profoundly messed up the Trump White House is, top to bottom, it’s this: the one person capable of making Trump and Co. happy in the role of chief of staff is former Freedom Caucus maniac Mick Mulvaney. The once—and current—Office of Management and Budget Director, who also moonlighted as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for over a year, has been filling in as top deputy for Trump since John Kelly left last year, reportedly <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/07/politics/john-kelly-chief-of-staff-donald-trump/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">no longer even trying to talk with Trump</a>. But Mulvaney is doing so great at the job, they’re <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/19/white-house-mulvaney-acting-chief-staff-1226055" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">making it permanent</a>.<div class="p1_4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">That’s right, the Freedom Caucus lives on, and this time it’s taking over the White House. Apparently, Mulvaney is working out so well because he just lets Trump do whatever the hell he wants, and is also nice to first daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, the guy running around on the world stage with a security clearance he should not have. Mulvaney lets them do whatever they want, as well, so they don’t go running to Daddy complaining about the nanny being mean. This all is absolutely real, sources tell Politico. He’s succeeding because he lets them be awful. “He has stayed out of a lot of people’s way,” a senior administration official told reporter Nancy Cook. “No one is saying he is killing it but staying out of people’s way has helped.”

>Here’s something to help you sleep at night: “Mulvaney has also quietly installed roughly eight loyal aides within the West Wing.” It’s a Freedom Caucus coup, brought about by the fact that literally no one else Trump tried to talk into taking the chief job was willing to do it. He got bored with the hunt for Kelly’s replacement after multiple, public rejections by people like Rep. Mark Meadows, the North Carolina maniac, Nick Ayers, and Chris Christie, so it looks like Mulvaney is ending up on top. Trump has apparently not made it official yet, and could change his mind, but he’s done nothing else in the interest of the country so it doesn’t seem likely he’ll want to chance getting someone else who might try to rein in his impulses again.<div class="p3_4" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Back to that coup—he’s installed his people in the “chief of staff’s office, communications shop and Domestic Policy Council, which crafts policy on issues like health care, drug prices, welfare, education and transportation.” That’s comforting, huh? While Trump’s out there being as Trumpy as he wants to be, Mulvaney and team will be behind the scenes trying to dismantle our society. Good times.omfgMany consumer groups including Americans for Financial Reform and U.S. PIRG consider Trump’s appointment of Mulvaney to be illegal. Mulvaney already had a job as the director of the Office of Management and Budget. The CFBP already had an acting director as provided by statute, long-time CFPB deputy director Leandra English. Now the issue is <a href="https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/us-pirg-urges-appeals-court-block-president-trumps-illegal-appointment-mick-mulvaney" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">in court </a>and a federal judge is expected to rule soon.  But Mulvaney did not sit around waiting for the courts to rule, he got right to work.Advance America, owned by the Mexican conglomerate Grupo Salinas, has its U.S. headquarters in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Mulvaney’s old House district includes parts of Spartanburg.As a Republican U.S. House member from South Carolina, Mulvaney took over $62,000 from payday lenders. This week he gave a speech to the American Bankers Association and told them how his office operated.“We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress,” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/04/25/daily-202-mick-mulvaney-s-confession-highlights-the-corrosive-influence-of-money-in-politics/5adfea2230fb043711926869/?utm_term=.f904450ca7d6&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">said Mulvaney</a>. “If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.”Well, Mulvaney appears to have carried that policy, right into the nation’s most important consumer protection agency. In December 2017, Mulvaney abnegated his responsibility to protect consumers by deciding to indefinitely postpone the new payday lender rule.<div style=""></div><div style=""><div>Opinions</div><div>Is the GOP the law and order party? Not so much.</div><div> </div><div>Jeffrey Epstein appears in custody in West Palm Beach, Fla., in 2008. (Uma Sanghvi/AP)</div><div>
</div><div>By Catherine Rampell</div><div>Columnist</div><div>December 10, 2018</div><div>For a party that claims to be “tough on crime,” Republicans seem pretty confused by what it means to hold criminals to account.</div><div>
</div><div>Particularly when it comes to white-collar crimes, or really any crimes committed by rich people.</div><div>
</div><div>On Friday, for instance, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) argued that President Trump should pardon his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who has been convicted of eight felonies and pleaded guilty to another two.</div><div>
</div><div>“If Manafort was going to be prosecuted as a consequence of his tax crimes or lobbying crimes, that would have happened more than a decade ago,” Gaetz said on Fox News, adding on Twitter, “The only reason he was prosecuted is because of politics.” </div><div>
</div><div>Joseph diGenova, a former Reagan-appointed federal prosecutor and now frequent Trump surrogate, likewise has suggested that Manafort should not have been prosecuted because he had “no criminal record.”  </div><div>
</div><div>By this logic, absent an extant criminal record, no one — not even pre-prosecution Al Capone — should ever get charged with a crime. Never having been in jail becomes a Get Out of Jail Free card.</div><div>
</div><div>In reality, the reason Manafort wasn’t prosecuted ages ago — despite the many red flags over the years — has little to do with politics and more to do with the fact that the United States has basically stopped prosecuting white-collar crimes. Adjusted for population, there were half as many white-collar prosecutions in fiscal 2018 as there were 30 years earlier, according to data from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.</div><div>
</div><div>Manafort is hardly the only wealthy white guy whom prominent Republicans — including GOP law enforcement officials — have sought to shield from the full weight of the law. </div><div>
</div><div>Consider the sweetheart plea deal given to Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, which the Miami Herald recently reported on in damning detail. </div><div>
</div><div>In a “cult-like sex pyramid scheme,” Epstein allegedly molested or sexually abused dozens of underage girls, some still in braces. One 15-year-old victim said she was recruited to be a “sex slave” out of the Mar-a-Lago locker room, where she worked as a towel girl.</div><div>
</div><div>The 53-page indictment prepared by law enforcement officials in 2007 could have landed Epstein in prison for life. Instead, Epstein, a longtime Democratic donor, hired a few well-connected Republican lawyers (including former independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr) and scored “one of the most lenient deals for a serial child sex offender in history,” according to the Herald.</div><div>
</div><div>The no-prosecution deal allowed him to serve just 13 months in the private wing of a local jail, from which he was granted “work release” 12 hours a day, six days a week. The agreement also effectively shut down an FBI investigation into others who might have been involved. </div><div>
</div><div>Which George W. Bush-appointed U.S. attorney decided to go so soft on sex crime? Why, Alexander Acosta, now Trump’s secretary of labor, a position with oversight over international child-labor laws and human trafficking.</div><div>
</div><div>Acosta effectively squelched an investigation into a real-life, Pizzagate-style child-sex ring. Yet law-and-order Republicans have remained mum on calls for his removal. </div><div>
</div><div>Other well-heeled, well-connected entities have also found the quality of Republican mercy unstrained.</div><div>
</div><div>Shortly after White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney took over as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency dropped an investigation into an installment lender that had donated to his congressional campaign. A ProPublica investigation had found that the company was charging annual interest rates that could exceed 200 percent.</div><div>...</div></div><div style=""></div><div style=""><a href="https://www.alternet.org/economy/trumps-budget-director-reveals-plans-attack-social-security-and-medicare">https://www.alternet.org/economy/trumps-budget-director-reveals-plans-attack-social-security-and-medicare</a></div><div style="">
</div><div style="">Opponents of Social Security and Medicare are so eager to end these two overwhelmingly important and popular earned benefits that they can’t contain themselves. Mick Mulvaney, the Trump administration’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, is the latest to make crystal clear the longstanding plan to destroy both programs.</div>Speaking at a conference of state legislators hosted by the anti-government American Legislative Exchange Council (“ALEC”), Mulvaney <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/28/budget-director-mick-mulvaney-says-medicare-social/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">just revealed</a> that he plans first to go after what he sees as more politically achievable cuts. He explained that the next step, presumably <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-social-security-medicare-changes-second-term-2017-12" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">after Trump is in his second term</a>, will be for the administration not just to cut these programs but to end them as we know them.Mulvaney is apparently so eager to go after our earned benefits that he threw the point into a speech to state legislators, even though both Social Security and Medicare are federal programs.Mulvaney’s apparent uncontained enthusiasm to take away people’s earned benefits is similar to that of Mitch McConnell, who just weeks before the midterm, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-mcconnell-social-security-20181019-story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">called for</a> Social Security and Medicare to be “adjusted” (code for destroying them). McConnell couldn’t resist broadcasting his intentions, even though these programs are extremely popular even with Republican voters.Why are these opponents so hostile to such important programs? Social Security, now more than eight decades old, and Medicare, now more than five decades old, have stood the test of time. Both of these efficient, virtually universal, overwhelmingly popular programs insure us against risks that all of us face. Rich or poor, anyone can suffer a disabling illness or accident, making work impossible. Rich or poor, any parent can die prematurely leaving dependent children. Rich or poor, all of us hope to live to old age and, if we are so fortunate, require income we cannot outlive and health insurance for the treatments and medication we inevitably will need.The private sector is incapable of providing the wage and health insurance that Social Security and Medicare provide as efficiently, universally, securely or effectively as the federal government. Insurance works best when the greatest numbers of people are covered. The only entity that can require that everyone is covered and pays premiums as soon as they start working is the federal government. That is one of the reasons both Social Security and Medicare work so well.And that is why Mulvaney, McConnell, and other opponents of these programs want to end them. These programs put the lie to their ideological zealotry, which insists that the private sector is always better than government.Decades ago, opponents of these programs were forthright that their objections were ideological. They did not see the creation and administration of universal insurance programs as an appropriate role for the federal government. But the American people overwhelmingly disagreed, so this argument was utterly unsuccessful.Now most opponents have changed their tactics, and proclaim their love for these programs. President George W. Bush, for example, proclaimed, “Social Security was a great moral success of the 20th century, and we must honor its great purposes in this new century.” His very next sentence argued for radically changing it. Similarly, Mulvaney, McConnell, and other opponents hide their straightforward ideological opposition. Rather, these opponents subversively seek to undermine confidence in Social Security’s and Medicare’s future by asserting that both programs are unaffordable.Worse, in their efforts to end Social Security and Medicare, they seek to turn Americans against each other. They tell us that seniors are taking from children, that people with disabilities are taking from seniors.Moreover, in their efforts to lull us into thinking they are not seeking to hurt our legitimate interests, opponents claim that our vital and earned financial protection in the event of disability isn’t as “core” as our financial protection in the event of old age. In his recent ALEC speech, Mulvaney tried to make just such a claim, asserting, “You can reform and save a ton of money in Medicare and Social Security and not touch the primary pillars for the next several years.” Along those same lines, last April, Mulvaney rhetorically asked, “Do you really think that Social Security disability insurance is part of what people think of when they think of Social Security?”I am confident that the over 10 million Americans receiving Social Security because of wages lost as the result of serious, work-ending disabilities understand that Social Security disability insurance is Social Security. When American workers pay into Social Security with every paycheck, disability insurance is one of the protections they earn, along with life insurance and retirement annuities.Social Security disability benefits are inextricably intertwined with Social Security’s retirement and survivor benefits. Social Security benefits are generated from the same formula. When workers with disabilities reach retirement age, their benefit is unchanged in amount but is paid as a retirement benefit, no longer as a disability benefit. Despite those facts, though, Mulvaney’s claim that Social Security disability insurance is not really Social Security is a convenient rhetorical game to claim “core” benefits are not being touched.For Medicare, Mulvaney revealed another trick before his ALEC audience. He floated the idea of Medicare no longer reimbursing teaching hospitals its fair share of those hospitals’ costs, arguing that the cut wouldn’t hurt beneficiaries. Like his claim that Social Security disability insurance is not “really’ Social Security, beneficiaries would be hurt, though not immediately, and the cause of the hurt would be difficult to trace.While benefits wouldn’t be directly cut, it certainly would limit the ability of Medicare beneficiaries to get treatment at teaching hospitals if that were their choice and the best setting for their care. To the extent Medicare didn’t pay its fair share and teaching hospitals nevertheless continued to treat seniors and people with disabilities, those costs would be shifted to everyone else.And, of course, this is just the start, Mulvaney made clear. “In the long term you’ll have to [make more major changes.] The president has asked me to fix the easy stuff first,” Mulvaney explained to his audience.Fortunately, the Democrats—who support expanding, not cutting, Social Security and Medicare—have control of the House of Representatives, at least for now. But, all of us who want to keep the benefits we have earned must remain vigilant. We must not be fooled or confused into allowing opponents to make what they deem “easy” cuts to our earned benefits.These opponents will not give up. And neither must we. Expanding, not cutting, our Social Security and Medicare is profoundly wise policy and is overwhelmingly popular. But it will only become a reality if we keep our voices loud, reminding our political leaders that it’s voters, not donors, to whom they must account next election day.This article was produced by <a href="https://independentmediainstitute.org/economy-for-all/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Economy for All</a>, a project of the Independent Media Institute.<div style="">=</div>AN"<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://rawstory.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=80b42ecc21f29763320aceb90&id=45cc2efb73&e=4da1f92934" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none">Easy to pay for something that costs less': New study shows 'Medicare for All' would save US $5.1 trillion over 10 years</a><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" italic="italic" color="color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams"Medicare for All promises a system that <interaction data-token="5b96855f8198b4e625350260" data-context="true" data-tags="" data-fallback="true" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div style=""></div> AN holland, j 818Embracing the reality of Trumpism means acknowledging the myriad ways in which he's broadened and deepened the swamp. Consider just a week of headlines about how his regime has made life easier for the plutocracy by giving them opportunities to fuck over working America -- in some cases, disproportionately targeting Trump's own credulous base."The Trump administration is planning to suspend routine examinations of lenders for violations of the Military Lending Act, which was devised to protect military service members and their families from financial fraud, predatory loans and credit card gouging," <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/us/politics/mulvaney-military-lending.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">reported The New York Times</a> this week.<a href="https://www.aol.com/article/news/2016/11/11/why-veterans-voted-donald-trump-swing-states/21603486/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">According to the exit polls</a>, military veterans voted for Trump by a 2-1 ratio.(Back in April, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/us/mulvaney-consumer-financial-protection-bureau.html?smid=fb-share" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">The Times</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/us/mulvaney-consumer-financial-protection-bureau.html?smid=fb-share" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">also reported</a> that Mulvaney had "advise[d] bankers on ways to curtail" his own agency's abilities to oversee their industry.)A tangentially related story that did get prominent coverage this week was <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/ike-perlmutter-bruce-moskowitz-marc-sherman-shadow-rulers-of-the-va" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">ProPublica's report</a> about how three of Trump's "cronies" from Mar-a-Lago who have never "served in the U.S. military or government" are "exerting sweeping influence" on the regime's policies for veterans.==<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.dcreport.org/2018/07/20/the-federal-deficit-mulvaney-says-the-congressional-budget-office-was-right-after-all/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">https://www.dcreport.org/2018/07/20/the-federal-deficit-mulvaney-says-the-congressional-budget-office-was-right-after-all/</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h4 class="entry-title" style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; line-height: 1.24; text-transform: capitalize;">The Federal Deficit: Mulvaney Says The Congressional Budget Office Was Right After All CBO Comes In Lower Than The White House—Still, Both Numbers Are Really, Really Big ...Since Becoming Trump’s Office Of Management And Budget Director, Mick Mulvaney Has Viciously Attacked The Congressional Budget Office As A Highly Partisan And Substantively Inept Organization. He Has Repeatedly Questioned Its Economic Assumptions, Its Budget Analyses And The Politics Of Its Analysts.[Chart]
CBO Said In Its <a href="https://www.cbo.gov/system/files?file=2018-06/53919-2018ltbo.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; transition: all 0.3s linear 0s;">Long-Term Budget Outlook</a> Report Released Last Month That The 2018 Deficit Will Be $793 Billion; OMB Said In Its Just-Released <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/19msr.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; transition: all 0.3s linear 0s;">Mid-Session Review</a> Of The President’s Budget That It Will Be $890 Billion. For 2019, CBO Said The Deficit Will Be $973 Billion While OMB Said It Will Be $1.085 Trillion.For 2020, CBO Said $1.003 Trillion Compared To OMB’s $1.076 Trillion.And That Makes It More Than A Little Newsworthy That OMB, The Federal Agency Mulvaney Himself Directs And In His Mind Is A Paragon Of Bipartisanship And Objectivity, Released A Report Last Friday That Not Only Shows That CBO’s Numbers Were Substantively Good, It Also Shows That The Organization Mulvaney Had Attacked For Being Too Partisan Was More Optimistic About Where The Federal Deficit Is Headed The Next Few Years Than Trump’s Own Budget Director.It’s Important To Note That OMB’s Numbers Are Based On What We Already Know Is A Complete Myth: That The Spending Cuts Included In The Trump Fiscal 2019 Budget Sent To Congress Earlier This Year Will Be Enacted. For The Second Year In A Row, The GOP Congress Has Shown No Interest Whatsoever In Adopting The Spending Cuts The President Proposed.As A Result, The Disparity Between CBO’s Relatively Optimistic Deficit Estimates And OMB’s Comparatively Pessimistic Projections Is Most Likely To Get Larger.<blockquote style="margin: 40px 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; position: relative; padding: 0px 40px; height: auto; overflow: hidden; clear: both;">OMB Director Mick Mulvaney Owes The Congressional Budget Office A Huge Apology.</blockquote>To Be Fair, CBO And OMB Diverge In The Opposite Direction From 2022 Through 2028. But, Also To Be Fair, Everyone’s Budget Forecast Beyond Three Years Is Far More Guesswork Than Substantive Analysis Given That Its Multiple Congressional And Presidential Elections And Countless Natural And Man-Made Disasters Will Occur, And Long-Term Forecasts Of How Fast The Economy Will Grow (Or Not) Are Often Just Wishful Thinking Or Straight-Line Extrapolations.In The Meantime, However, OMB Director Mick Mulvaney Owes The Congressional Budget Office A Huge Apology.Stan Collender Is One Of The Leading Experts On The Federal Budget, Federal Spending And Revenues, The Deficit, The National Debt And The Congressional Budget Process. He Blogs <a href="https://thebudgetguy.blog/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.3s linear 0s;">Thebudgetguy </a></h4></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/05/02/alec-payday-loan-company-gets-reprieve-under-trump-administration">https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/05/02/alec-payday-loan-company-gets-reprieve-under-trump-administration</a>
Corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)

are benefiting from the deregulation frenzy of the Trump Administration.

ALEC of course is the corporate bill mill that provides a library of

lobbyist-drafted or approved “model legislation” to right-wing state

lawmakers across the land.

Advance America is the largest payday loan lender in the United

States, with 2,500 locations. The company did not return our call about

its latest activities, but in 2014 Advance America was listed as a

“trustee level” financial sponsor of ALEC.

The Trump administration’s treatment of Advance America and the

predatory payday loan industry shows how the Trump teams “deconstruction

of the administrative state” often pits the low income and working poor

against giant companies, companies that enjoy the protection of the

politicians who take their money.

<h2 style="">CFPB CRACKS DOWN ON PAYDAY LENDING INDUSTRY</h2>

The Center for Media and Democracy has crunched the numbers

and Advance America had over $40 million in class action lawsuit

pay-outs, fines and restitution as a result of cases brought by state

attorneys generals since 2009. The company was found to be

cheating consumers by overcharging and ladling on the hidden fees. In

some instances, when people authorize withdrawals from bank accounts to

pay the loan, the banks will also charge fees.

This type of predatory lending prompted the Consumer Financial

Protection Bureau (CFPB), the federal consumer agency championed by U.S.

Senator Elizabeth Warren and President Obama, to crack down on the

industry.

Among other things, the CFPB issued a rule in 2017, that would have

forced the payday industry to “reasonably determine that the consumer

has the ability to repay the loan,” and would have prevented lenders

from attempting to collect payment from people’s bank accounts in ways

that racks up excessive fees. The rule also would have made payday loan

companies notify consumers before attempting to withdraw payments from

their account.

But when President Trump put Mick Mulvaney in charge of the CFPB, he literally put the fox in charge of the hen house.

<h2 style="">MULVANEY WREAKS HAVOC AT CFPB</h2>

Many consumer groups including Americans for Financial Reform and

U.S. PIRG consider Trump’s appointment of Mulvaney to be illegal.

Mulvaney already had a job as the director of the Office of Management

and Budget. The CFBP already had an acting director as provided by

statute, long-time CFPB deputy director Leandra English. Now the issue

is <a href="https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/us-pirg-urges-appeals-court-block-president-trumps-illegal-appointment-mick-mulvaney" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in court </a>and

a federal judge is expected to rule soon.  But Mulvaney did not sit

around waiting for the courts to rule, he got right to work.

Advance America, owned by the Mexican conglomerate Grupo Salinas, has

its U.S. headquarters in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Mulvaney’s old

House district includes parts of Spartanburg.

As a Republican U.S. House member from South Carolina, Mulvaney took

over $62,000 from payday lenders. This week he gave a speech to the

American Bankers Association and told them how his office operated.

“We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress,” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/04/25/daily-202-mick-mulvaney-s-confession-highlights-the-corrosive-influence-of-money-in-politics/5adfea2230fb043711926869/?utm_term=.f904450ca7d6&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said Mulvaney</a>.

“If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If

you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.”

Well, Mulvaney appears to have carried that policy, right into the

nation’s most important consumer protection agency. In December 2017,

Mulvaney abnegated his responsibility to protect consumers by deciding

to indefinitely postpone the new payday lender rule.

By putting the rule on ice, Mulvaney helps Advance America and other

payday lenders by allowing them to continue to lend short term money

without any real credit check of borrowers.

Next he <a href="http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2018/01/stop-debt-trap-statement-mulvaney-drops-lawsuit-payday-lenders-charging-950-interest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped the CFPB lawsuit</a>

against four predatory lenders who were unlawfully making loans with

interest rates of an astounding 950 percent APR in at least 17 states.

Mulvaney even wants to deep-six the critically important, public data

base where consumers can register complaints against abusive financial

firms, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/04/25/605835307/the-consumer-complaints-database-that-could-disappear-from-view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports NPR</a> this week.

There is a need for short term lending in times of economic distress

for consumers and especially for those who are “unbanked”–do not have

access to affordable community banks or credit unions in their

neighborhoods–but the industry has a long history of charging excessive

fees and interest rates, as much as 500% per year in some states, and

then suing borrowers and garnishing wages for repayment.

Payday loans “trap borrowers in an unaffordable cycle of debt,

causing severe financial harm such as bank penalty fees, delinquency on

other bills, or even bankruptcy.” Mulvaney’s action “shows disdain for

consumer protection and low-income communities that are targeted by

these debt trap loans,” says the public interest group <a href="http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2018/01/stop-debt-trap-statement-mulvaney-predatory-lenders-signal-plan-kill-payday-lending-rule/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stop the Debt Trap</a>.

The history of state attorneys general lawsuits and class action

claims against Advance America, summarized below, as well as the fact

that almost all payday lenders do business in multiple states clearly

shows the need for federal legislation, not just state oversight, which

might be spotty in some states.

2018: Advance America

forced to pay $160,000 to state of California and refund $88,000 to

customers for charging above legal interest rates, and for using lead

generators to find borrowers, a practice <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-advance-america-20180312-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prohibited by California law</a>.

2015: Advance America

agrees to refund $8 million in loan fees and interest to Pennsylvania

customers and write-off $12 million in loans, for <a href="http://www.mcall.com/news/local/watchdog/blog/mc-borrowers-will-get-refunds-under-settlement-with-payday-lender-advance-america-20150211-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exceeding state interest rate limits</a>

by charging excessive fees to get around the state interest rate cap.

“We maintain that this company disguised its outrageous interest rates

as fees, misleading consumers and violating the law,” former state

Attorney General Kathleen Kane said. “Payday lending practices adversely

impact vulnerable consumers and often force them into a cycle of debt

from which many cannot recover.”

2010: Advance America

settles a class action lawsuit in North Carolina by paying 140,000

customers $18.75 million in restitution. In both the class, the largest

of its kind against a payday lender and the state <a href="https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2010/09/payday-loan-lawsuit-brings-18-million-settlement-against-advance-america.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Attorney General accused</a> Advance America of charging excessive fees and fines.

2009: Advance America

agrees to pay a minimum of $2 million to Georgia borrowers to settle all

class action claims in the state. The average borrower would receive up

to $90 to settle lawsuits that claimed the company violated state law

by charging excessive fees to <a href="https://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/Advance+America+%28AEA%29+Settles+Class+Action+Lawsuit+in+Georgia%3B+Announces+Plans+to+Close+Operations+in+New+Hampshire/4376170.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">get around interest rate caps</a>.

budget director and interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Mick Mulvaney made <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F04%2F24%2Fus%2Fmulvaney-consumer-financial-protection-bureau.html&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=429weekly&n=14&v=1347" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a stunning admission</a>: While in Congress, he only met with lobbyists who gave him money. And he didn't just make this admission. He said it out loud in a room full of bankers and lobbyists while asking them for money. This is the sort of scandal that would be months long if it happened in any other administration. As it was, Fox & Friends ignored it and some pundits on CNN <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediamatters.org%2Fblog%2F2018%2F04%2F25%2Ffox-friends-ignores-mick-mulvaney-s-pay-play-admission%2F220037&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=429weekly&n=15&v=1347" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">said that</a> this type of scandal is just what happens in American politics. In fact, Fox News didn't even cover the scandal <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediamatters.org%2Fvideo%2F2018%2F04%2F25%2Fshep-smith-reports-mick-mulvaneys-pay-play-admission-fox-news-finally-covers-scandal%2F220040&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=429weekly&n=16&v=1347" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">until Shep Smith did</a>, nearly a day after it broke.=OMBpromoted to primary 2/18 snap, evil pendingcoup cfpb Senate moved Wednesday to end an Obama-era policy that warns auto lenders against discriminating against people of color by charging them more on auto loans. West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin joined Republicans in a 51 to 47 vote to overrule the policy by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—an agency that’s been assailed by Republicans since its creation in 2010. The House is expected to approve the bill and to send it to President Trump for his signature. The rule was adopted after a 2011 report by the Center for Responsible Lending found African Americans and Latinos disproportionately received interest rate markups more frequently and to a greater degree than their white counterparts.===
<h1 class="entry-title" style="">Head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Asks Congress to Gut His Own Agency</h1><h3 class="dek" style="">He calls the bureau “the very definition of tyranny.”</h3><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/the-head-of-trumps-wall-street-watchdog-just-asked-congress-to-gut-his-own-agency/">https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/the-head-of-trumps-wall-street-watchdog-just-asked-congress-to-gut-his-own-agency/</a><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/the-head-of-trumps-wall-street-watchdog-just-asked-congress-to-gut-his-own-agency/">B</a><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/the-head-of-trumps-wall-street-watchdog-just-asked-congress-to-gut-his-own-agency/">efore joining the Trump administration, White House budget director

Mick Mulvaney made no secret of his dislike for the Consumer Financial

Protection Bureau (CFPB), the agency created in the wake of the 2008

financial crisis to better supervise Wall Street.

</a>As a congressman, Mulvaney proposed legislation to eliminate the

bureau, calling it a “sick, sad” joke. Now as the Trump-appointed

interim head of the agency, Mulvaney on Monday presented his <a href="https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_semi-annual-report_spring-2018.pdf">first report</a>

to Congress on the work of the bureau, recommending four major changes

to the CFPB’s structure, funding, and oversight, that would vastly

weaken the consumer watchdog.

The report offers yet more evidence that Mulvaney is capitalizing on

his temporary position atop the CFPB to bring years of proposals to

undermine the agency to life.

“The bureau is far too powerful, and with precious little oversight

of its activities,” Mulvaney writes in a blistering introduction.

Mulvaney then cites the Federalist Papers, quoting James Madison on how

overly powerful bureaucracies meet “the very definition of tyranny.”

While there are in fact <a href="https://consumerfed.org/pdfs/CFPB-Accountability-fact-sheet-6-11.pdf">many checks</a>

on the CFPB’s activity across all three branches of government, 

Mulvaney calls the CFPB’s current structure “a warning sign that a lapse

in democratic structure and republican principles has occurred.”

Mulvaney makes a number of major policy recommendations in the

report. While the CFPB is currently funded through a special

appropriation from the Federal Reserve, Mulvaney suggests it instead be

funded through the regular congressional budget process. The move would

give Congress, and accordingly, whichever political party is in the

majority, far more control over the bureau. He also asks Congress to

pass a law requiring legislative approval of any CFPB rules. Since its

inception in 2011, the CFPB has passed a number of rules aimed at

curbing abusive practices by financial institutions, including new

limits on payday lenders that are <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/democrats-call-out-trumps-consumer-watchdog-for-letting-payday-lenders-off-the-hook/">popular</a> with consumers, and <a href="https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/new-rules-governing-the-cfpbs-enforcement-work/">rules</a> that helped the CFPB undertake enforcement efforts that have recovered <a href="https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-orders-ge-capital-to-pay-225-million-in-consumer-relief-for-deceptive-and-discriminatory-credit-card-practices/">millions</a> of dollars on behalf of <a href="https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-supervision-recovers-14-million-first-half-2017-over-100000-consumers-harmed-illegal-practices/">hundreds of thousands</a> of consumers.

In a move that is likely related to the <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/11/while-you-were-shopping-trump-set-off-a-civil-war-at-a-consumer-protection-agency/">controversy</a>

surrounding Mulvaney’s own appointment this fall, the report also

suggests Congress enact a law clarifying that the CFPB’s director must

answer directly to the president. When the Obama-appointed CFPB director

Richard Cordray stepped down from his post in November, Cordray, citing

the 2010 law that established the bureau, appointed an interim director

to succeed him. The Trump administration argued that, under a different

federal law, Trump had the right to install his own interim director. A

district court initially ruled in Trump’s favor, installing Mulvaney,

but the battle is still winding through the courts.

Mulvaney also advises that Congress create an independent inspector general dedicated

to overseeing the CFPB. Debbie Goldstein of the Center for Responsible

Lending, a financial services watchdog group, calls the suggestion “a

red herring” given that the CFPB is already overseen by an <a href="https://oig.federalreserve.gov/introduction.htm">inspector general</a> that also monitors the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.

“The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was established as an

independent agency in order to buttress it from the enormous political

pressures of the banking lobby,” said Goldstein in an emailed statement.

“Mulvaney’s proposed changes would make consumer protection dependent

on Congress and the White House standing up to the financial industry.”

The rest of Mulvaney’s CFPB report details the bureau’s work towards

its enforcement and supervision missions. Most of the actions described

took place from April through September 2017—when Cordray was still in

charge....


<div style=""><a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/mick-mulvaney-bids-gary-cohn-farewell-anti-semitic-dog-whistle">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/mick-mulvaney-bids-gary-cohn-farewell-anti-semitic-dog-whistle</a></div><div style="">
</div><div style="">months  after watching Donald Trump praise some of the white nationalists in Charlottesville as "very good people," <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/gary-cohn-resigning-trumps-economic-adviser-losing-fight-tariffs-report/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Gary Cohn resigned as chief economic adviser Tuesday</a>, deciding the president's newly declared tariffs on steel and aluminum were his red line. That evening, Director of the Office of Budget and Management Mick Mulvaney thanked Cohn for his service as only a member of the Trump administration could: with an anti-Semitic dog whistle.</div><div id="TeadsNative" style=""><div alt="" class="media-image" height="195" width="480" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[img]</div>While the term "globalism" has gained new currency since Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/politics/globalism-right-trump.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">it has been a far-right conspiracy theory</a> for the better part of a century, echoing the tropes of a fraudulent text titled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Protocols of the Elders of Zion</a>. Published in Russia in 1903 and disseminated across Europe and the United States, Protocols outlined a fabricated plot of Jewish global hegemony that has served as the basis for modern anti-Semitism.Those decrying "globalists" similarly maintain that a shadowy cabal controls the news media, the banks and the federal government. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center's Ryan Lenz, “Globalism is a principal driver of the fears that animate the radical right in the United States. It is the enemy, ultimately.”That a far-right ideologue and <a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/02/18/the-trump-administration-is-not-even-masking-its-contempt-for-the-poor-anymore_partner/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">moral cretin</a> like Mulvaney subscribes to this worldview is unremarkable. What is remarkable, and what makes his statement so foreboding, is that he has no compunction about sharing it.<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><a href="https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-acting-director-announces-chief-staff/">https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-acting-director-announces-chief-staff/</a>bsWashington, D.C. — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Acting Director Mick Mulvaney announced today that he has named Kirsten Sutton Mork chief of staff for the agency. Ms. Sutton Mork has been serving as staff director of the House Financial Services Committee under Chairman Jeb Hensarling."I am pleased to announce Ms. Sutton Mork as the new chief of staff at the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection," said CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney. "I worked with Kirsten during my tenure as a member on the House Financial Services Committee and can attest to her in-depth financial policy expertise, proven track record of developing and implementing strategic initiatives, and ability to manage a team. Kirsten brings with her more than a decade of invaluable experience that will advance the mission of the Bureau and make it more efficient, effective, and accountable."Ms. Sutton Mork’s tenure on Capitol Hill spans the financial crisis and post-crisis legislative response. She staffed Hensarling during House Financial Services Committee, House and conference committee consideration of the legislation that established the Bureau, the Dodd-Frank Act, and she is intimately familiar with the Bureau’s statutory mission and obligations. She was appointed deputy staff director to the House Financial Services Committee in 2013 and became staff director in early 2017. Ms. Sutton Mork attended Wheaton College where she received a B.A. in communications.=Blue Apron but for the poor. On the heels of a $1.5 trillion tax cut for multinational corporations and the richest tenth of the 1 percent, it's a proposal so transparent in its contempt for lower-income earners that few public officials would consider it, much less pitch it to the public. Then again, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney is not most public officials.<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/02/12/trump-wants-to-slash-food-stamps-and-replace-them-with-a-blue-apron-type-program/?utm_term=.3aaf7ef11992" style="text-decoration-line: none;">According to the Washington Post</a>, the Trump administration aims to roll back the federal food stamps program, embracing what Jim Weill, president of the Food Research and Action Center, calls a "Depression-era approach" to fighting hunger. Rather than receive paper coupons or credit toward an EBT card, as many as 81 percent of SNAP recipients would be issued "America's Harvest Boxes" approved by the USDA, each containing nonperishable food items like shelf-stable milk, juice, grains, cereals, pasta, peanut butter and beans, as well as canned meat, fruits and vegetables.“What we do is propose that for folks who are on food stamps, part—not all, part—of their benefits come in the actual sort of—and I don't want to steal somebody's copyright—but a Blue Apron-type program where you actually receive the food instead of receive the cash,” Mulvaney told the White House press corps during a Monday briefing. “It lowers the cost to us because we can buy [at wholesale prices] whereas they have to buy it at retail. It also makes sure they're getting nutritious food. So we're pretty excited about that."Where to begin? While a meal on food stamps costs $1.37, the average order from Blue Apron's meal-kit delivery service runs upwards of $10 per person. Blue Apron also allows its customers to purchase from a menu of eight meals, including fresh fish, meat and produce—a privilege neither the president nor his budget director believes the poor are entitled to.Adding potential injury to insult, Mulvaney makes no mention of how the Harvest Box plan will address the individual dietary restrictions of millions of Americans. Nor does he explain how canned meats and produce, <a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/brutal-reality-being-poor-america-rich-refuse-acknowledge" style="text-decoration-line: none;">which are typically loaded with preservatives</a>, will meet the nutritional needs of their recipients.The proposal would likely upend the supermarket industry, with chains like Walmart, Target and Aldi losing billions in food stamp payments. Unsurprisingly, the Food Marketing Institute, a lobbying group for grocery stores, has called the boxed meals "expensive, inefficient and unlikely to generate any long-term government savings."Blue Apron itself has not been without its detractors. As the Post notes, the company "saw its customer base contract in 2017. A recent report by the market research firm Datassential found that four in 10 lapsed meal-kit subscribers dropped their service because they were too costly."The Trump administration's latest budget proposal is almost certainly dead on arrival. But as long as the GOP controls all three branches of government, no social welfare program is safe and no prospective cut is too shameless. trump OMB recall dark arts of john graham etclcv 14/11%  <a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/mick-mulvaney">http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/mick-mulvaney</a>=<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/</a>
We’re fully into Orwellian territory now. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html?utm_term=.d7e716915ed4" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: linear;">The Washington Post’s Lena H. Sun and Juliet Eilperin reported</a>Friday evening that a group of CDC employees were told not to use seven words in official budget documents: “vulnerable,” “fetus,” “transgender,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “evidence-based,” and “science-based.”Twenty-four hours later, Sun and Eilperin followed up by reporting that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/words-banned-at-multiple-hhs-agencies-include-diversity-and-vulnerable/2017/12/16/9fa09250-e29d-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html?utm_term=.97c5eedd61c3" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: linear;">another HHS agency received similar guidance</a> about avoiding “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” and “diversity,” as well as instructions to use “Obamacare” instead of “Affordable Care Act.” Another linguistic substitution is visible at the State Department, where some documents now refer to “sexual risk avoidance” rather than “sex education.”In a post at the Union of Concerned Scientists blog on Saturday morning, <a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/michael-halpern/is-cdc-banning-the-use-of-scientific-words-its-time-for-cdc-director-brenda-fitzgerald-to-speak-up" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: linear;">Michael Halpern wrote</a>:OMB says will maintain satellite GOES weather budget, but house, sen, trump want cuts....The calendars for Mick Mulvaney, the former South Carolina congressman who now runs the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(33, 124, 227, 0); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">White House Office of Management and Budget</a>, offer a glimpse of who has access to the highest levels of the Trump administration.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Among those visiting Mulvaney: Trump friend and casino magnate Steve Wynn; a flurry of officials from the conservative Heritage Foundation; a string of health care and Wall Street CEOs; lobbyists for Koch Industries; a cryptocurrency evangelist; and a prominent member of the Catholic group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_Dei" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(33, 124, 227, 0); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Opus Dei</a>.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The Trump administration fought in court to block public records requests by <a href="https://www.operationfortyfive.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(33, 124, 227, 0); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Property of the People</a>, a Washington-based nonprofit transparency group, to release the calendars as well as visitor logs from several other White House offices. Lawyers for the group ultimately prevailed and provided the documents to ProPublica, <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/wh-complex" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(33, 124, 227, 0); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">which we are posting in a searchable format</a>.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">As OMB director, Mulvaney is the driving force behind the president’s budget and influences regulations and government procurement. It’s been widely <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/business/mulvaney-consumer-watchdog.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(33, 124, 227, 0); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a>that he will become the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He also has the ear of the president, who is <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/01/mick-mulvaney-omb-trump-budget-profile-feature-215546" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(33, 124, 227, 0); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">reportedly</a> a fan of Mulvaney’s performances on the Sunday political shows. The calendars, which cover February to September, typically don’t include details on what was discussed at the meetings. In some cases, the timing of contact with Mulvaney line up with OMB business.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
The quickest way to get access to Mulvaney appears to be to hire his former congressional chief of staff, <a href="http://www.mercuryllc.com/experts/al-simpson/" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" border-width="border-width" border-top-style="border-top-style" initial="initial" border-right-style="border-right-style" border-bottom-style="border-bottom-style" solid="solid" border-left-style="border-left-style" border-top-color="border-top-color" border-right-color="border-right-color" border-bottom-color="border-bottom-color" rgba="rgba" border-left-color="border-left-color" border-image="border-image" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-variant="font-variant" font-weight="font-weight" font-stretch="font-stretch" line-height="line-height" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" transition="transition" s="s" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none">Al Simpson</a>, who joined the lobbying firm <a href="http://www.mercuryllc.com/mercury-welcomes-senator-david-vitter-senior-gop-hill-adviser-allen-simpson-veteran-lobbyist-brent-thompson/" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" border-width="border-width" border-top-style="border-top-style" initial="initial" border-right-style="border-right-style" border-bottom-style="border-bottom-style" solid="solid" border-left-style="border-left-style" border-top-color="border-top-color" border-right-color="border-right-color" border-bottom-color="border-bottom-color" rgba="rgba" border-left-color="border-left-color" border-image="border-image" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-variant="font-variant" font-weight="font-weight" font-stretch="font-stretch" line-height="line-height" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" transition="transition" s="s" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none">Mercury</a> in February.“The OMB director is a member of the cabinet and also a senior adviser to the president — because of that, the director often spends a ton of time in the West Wing,” said Kenneth Baer, who was senior adviser and associate director at the agency for several years of the Obama administration.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Simpson had seven meetings and a phone call with Mulvaney in a four-month period, between April and August. He appears on Mulvaney’s calendars more frequently than anyone who is not a current government official. Often, Simpson brought lobbying clients with him, including representatives from building materials giant Cemex; pharma firm AmerisourceBergen; and BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. Those three firms paid Mercury $360,000 in the first nine months of the year, disclosure filings show.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">A Mercury spokesman said: “The firm fully complies with all registration and disclosure requirements when representing clients.” The OMB press office did not respond to requests for comment.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">In July, Simpson and Koch Industries lobbyists Brian Henneberry and Raymond Paul met with Mulvaney.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">In other cases, billionaires themselves came in to meet with Mulvaney. They include Charles Schwab, medical entrepreneur <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Soon-Shiong" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(33, 124, 227, 0); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick Soon-Shiong</a> and Wynn, the casino magnate whose relationship with Trump goes back decades. Wynn met with Mulvaney in April. Wynn’s firm has lobbied on tax issues on Capitol Hill. Wynn himself, who has large holdings in Macau, has <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/23/steve-wynn-delivered-trump-a-letter-from-the-chinese-government.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(33, 124, 227, 0); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">reportedly</a> been involved in pressing the Trump administration on China issues. Wynn was also named finance chairman of the <a href="https://gop.com/chairwoman-mcdaniel-announces-steve-wynn-as-rnc-finance-chairman/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(33, 124, 227, 0); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican National Committee</a> in January. Wynn’s spokesman declined to comment.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">In late February, Mulvaney had a call with Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court justice and a prominent lawyer at Gibson Dunn. At the time, Scalia was <a href="https://www.fa-mag.com/news/eugene-scalia--the-person-to-watch-on-fiduciary-rules-26159.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(33, 124, 227, 0); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">representing</a> business groups that <a href="http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2017/02/28/omb-finishes-review-of-fiduciary-rule-delay-reques" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(33, 124, 227, 0); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">wanted OMB</a> to delay the implementation of a regulation known as the <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/updates/dol-fiduciary-rule/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(33, 124, 227, 0); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">fiduciary rule</a>. Scalia didn’t respond to a request for comment. Many of his meetings with health care executives came as Republicans in Congress tried to repeal Obamacare.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">...<a href="https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/wh-complex">https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/wh-complex</a>mtg logsjim hIn the contest for “Most Awful Member of Donald Trump’s Cabinet,” you’d assume that Jeff Sessions, the bigoted twerp now serving as attorney general, would be a shoo-in. Suddenly, however, Mick Mulvaney has darted from out of the deepest, meanest darkness of severe right-wing dogma to become the new favorite for awfulest of them all.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" eb="EB" garamond="Garamond" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Who? Mulvaney, a former tea party congress critter from South Carolina, was plucked from obscurity to become Trump’s budget director – and chief demonizer of America’s poor people. The budget he wrote for The Donald savages such effective anti-poverty programs as food stamps, Medicaid, and job training in order to pay for massive, unneeded, and unproductive tax cuts for America’s pampered 1-percenters.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" eb="EB" garamond="Garamond" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">But that’s not the only reason they want to clobber the poor, for Mulvaney sees himself as the wrathful enforcer of the Holy Work Ethic, a Dickensian character whose job it is to punish the poor for being, in his view, a morally bankrupt class of slothful moochers. The Trump budget is all about “compassion” he declaims – explaining that it shows compassion for the poor by compelling them to get a job in order to end their so-called “shame” of accepting public assistance, rather than “taking charge of their own lives.” Never mind that most able-bodied adults getting poverty aid already work or are looking for a job, Mulvaney mindlessly barks, “We need people to go to work.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" eb="EB" garamond="Garamond" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">No, Mick, we need you to go get a clue about the harsh realities of living in poverty – including having to endure constant condescension from judgmental jerks like you who smugly condemn a food-stamp family while drawing a six-figure salary from taxpayers, plus health coverage, a rich pension, and a chauffeured limousine. Congratulations, you’re the awfulest of the awful.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" eb="EB" garamond="Garamond" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/us/politics/biosecurity-trump-budget-defense.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);">Trump Can’t Add Things Up</a>,” The New York Times, May 25, 2017.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" eb="EB" garamond="Garamond" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/us/politics/budget-cuts-mulvaney-food-stamps-big-bird.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);">Defending Cuts, and Misleading on Big Bird</a>,” The New York Times,<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" eb="EB" garamond="Garamond" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/us/politics/trump-congress-affordable-care-act-medicaid.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);">States Could Make Work a Medicaid Requirement Under G.O.P. Deal</a>,” The New York Times, March 18, 2017.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" eb="EB" garamond="Garamond" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/upshot/why-work-requirement-became-a-theme-of-the-trump-budget.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);">Work Requirement Ignites Fairness Debate</a>,” The New York Times, May 24, 2017.<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The White House released its budget request for the 2018 fiscal year on Tuesday, the Trump administration made good on its promise to target deep cuts to federal spending on climate, energy, science, research and other programs widely seen as critical to America’s ability to adapt to a warming world and reduce its impact on the climate.White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters Tuesday that the government has been spending too much money on climate change and Trump’s <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BUDGET-2018-APP/pdf/BUDGET-2018-APP.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">proposed budget</a> intentionally rebukes the Obama administration’s support for federally funded climate research.“We want to do some climate science, but we're not going to do some of the crazy stuff the previous administration did,” Mulvaney said.Trump, who has called climate change <a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/trump-could-abandon-paris-climate-agreement-20711" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a hoax</a>, has strenuously objected to the Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas emissions regulations created by the Obama administration. His budget reflects his vow to hamstring the EPA’s ability to control and monitor climate pollution by cutting its budget by about 30 percent — more than any other agency.The $4 trillion budget proposes massive tax cuts for the rich and major corporations while boosting defense spending and it attempts to pay for both with cuts to nearly everything else. The budget eviscerates Medicaid and other social safety net programs, eliminates federal arts support and slashes environmental programs that are unpopular with the administration and its supporters.*
Congressional hearings on the budget <a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/long-budget-process-impact-climate-change-21464" style="text-decoration-line: none;">begin this week</a>, and deliberations in the House and Senate are expected to last into the summer. If the process is not completed by September, lawmakers can pass continuing resolutions to keep the government operating into the next fiscal year, which begins in October. If no agreement is reached, the government will shut down.Other big proposed cuts to federal climate, environment and energy programs that were outlined in the administration’s <a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/trump-wants-to-zero-out-epa-programs-21212" style="text-decoration-line: none;">“skinny” budget</a> in March are largely intact in the final version. Compared to <a href="http://democrats.appropriations.house.gov/sites/democrats.appropriations.house.gov/files/wysiwyg_uploaded/FY17%20Omnibus%20Summary%205-1-17.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">2017 levels</a> approved by Congress in May, the budget calls for a 9 percent funding cut for the Department of Energy and a nearly 7 percent cut for the Department of Interior. NASA saw a cut of about 3 percent, including 8.7 percent from its earth science programs, and the National Science Foundation saw an 11 percent cut, according to the American Geophysical Union.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the government’s key climate science and meteorological agencies, is targeted for a 16 percent cut. NOAA’s climate research program received a 19 percent cut, according to AGU.The U.S. Geological Survey’s <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/science/mission-areas/climate-and-land-use-change" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Climate and Land Use Change</a> program, now known as the “Land Resources” program, is targeted for a 24 percent cut, and the agency, part of the Interior Department, is proposed to receive a 15 percent cut overall.The cuts to NSF and USGS were particularly surprisingly large because their budgets have mostly stayed flat and haven’t been part of the more rancorous policy discussions, said AGU public affairs director Lexi Shultz.The budget calls for numerous programs to be killed entirely, including the the EPA’s Energy Star Program energy efficiency program and the DOE’s National Sea Grant College Program. The Energy Star Program certifies consumer electronic goods and buildings for energy efficiency. And the National Sea Grant College program pays for university-based efforts to shore up coastal economies and communities against the ravages of climate change and extreme weather.The Trump administration is calling for the elimination of four DOE energy research and development programs, including those focusing on energy efficiency, renewables, nuclear, and electric power grid modernization. Also targeted is the DOE’s Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy, which supports research for cutting-edge clean energy technology. Its tasks can be best handled by the private sector, <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BUDGET-2018-MSV/pdf/BUDGET-2018-MSV.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the administration said</a>.Five climate-related NASA satellite missions are also targeted for elimination. The missions help scientists learn more about the earth’s climate system and how global warming is changing it. They also monitor the health of the nation’s coasts and provided early warnings of drought stress in crops.Deeply unpopular with scientists, the budget is now in the hands of Congress, which is broadly expected to give the White House few of the cuts it is asking for. Congress <a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-energy-program-budget-repreive-21412" style="text-decoration-line: none;">ignored Trump’s call </a>for deep cuts in federal programs when it passed a budget for the last five months of the 2017 fiscal year in early May, funding the government largely at 2016 levels.“If the White House budget plan were to become law, it would devastate America’s science and technology enterprise,” <a href="https://www.aaas.org/person/rush-d-holt" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Rush Holt</a>, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a former New Jersey congressman, told reporters Tuesday. “The White House does not make appropriations. It is Congress that makes appropriations. Congress has made it clear that they do not buy into this really harsh and abrupt approach to science funding.”Shultz said Congress has pushed back against Trump’s previous budget proposal and it’s likely Congress will do so again.If the cuts in the skinny budget had made it into law, they “would’ve really decimated the federal sciences,” and not just what the agencies do themselves, but in academia as well “because that’s where the grants come from,” Shultz, said.<a href="https://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/20930/antonio-busalacchi-named-president-of-university-corporation-for-atmospheric" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Antonio Busalacchi</a>, president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, said UCAR is concerned that the proposed budget cuts for federal earth systems science programs will undermine scientific progress needed to protect the U.S. from natural disasters.“This would have serious repercussions for the U.S. economy and national security, and for the ability to protect life and property,” he said.<a href="https://www.ghgpolicy.org/about/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Danny Cullenward</a>, an energy economist at Stanford University, said the proposed budget is an attack on the integrity of both U.S. environmental protection and the nation’s leadership in energy innovation.“The proposed budget includes massive cuts to national environmental remediation programs, earth sciences, and basic energy research,” he said. “At a time when advanced science and technology is so important to solving our national challenges, this budget would force the United States’ smartest researchers out of public interest science.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div>=<a href="https://votesmart.org/candidate/60348/mick-mulvaney#.WSXSz-vyuM8">https://votesmart.org/candidate/60348/mick-mulvaney#.WSXSz-vyuM8</a>
Rating: Mick Mulvaney was rated 93% by Heritage Action for America (Positions)05/12/2017Endorsed: Mick Mulvaney was endorsed by Humane Society Legislative Fund03/29/2017Rating: Mick Mulvaney was rated 88% by The John Birch Society (Positions)Rating: Mick Mulvaney was rated 15% by Humane Society Legislative Fund (Positions)03/17/2017Rating: Mick Mulvaney was rated 96% by The Club for Growth (Positions (Lifetime))Rating: Mick Mulvaney was rated 94% by The Club for Growth (Positions)03/16/2017Rating: Mick Mulvaney was rated 91% by National Taxpayers Union (Positions)Rating: Mick Mulvaney was rated 100% by National Right to Life Committee (Positions)03/13/2017Rating: Mick Mulvaney was rated 0% by NARAL Pro-Choice America (Positions)Rating: Mick Mulvaney was rated 100% by Eagle Forum (Positions)03/10/2017Rating: Mick Mulvaney was rated 100% by Campaign for Working Families (Positions)Rating: Mick Mulvaney was rated 73% by Americans for Prosperity (Lifetime Score)03/08/2017Rating: Mick Mulvaney was rated 100% by Americans for Prosperity (Positions)Rating: Mick Mulvaney was rated 22% by American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) (Positions)03/01/2017Endorsed: Mick Mulvaney was endorsed by National Federation of Independent Business02/22/2017Rating: Mick Mulvaney was rated 100% by FreedomWorks (Positions)<a href="https://votesmart.org/candidate/campaign-finance/60348/mick-mulvaney#.WSXUFuvyuM8">https://votesmart.org/candidate/campaign-finance/60348/mick-mulvaney#.WSXUFuvyuM8</a>Finance/Insur/RealEst  $478,139.00Misc Business$90,120.00Other$86,792.00Construction$64,400.00Ideology/Single-Issue$62,951.00Lawyers & Lobbyists$62,860.00Health$54,520.00Energy/Nat Resource$39,900.00Transportation$39,185.00Communic/Electronics$26,790.00Agribusiness$25,175.00Labor$5,000.00Defense$3,775.00<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div>Finance/Insur/RealEst$478,139.00Misc Business$90,120.00Other$86,792.00Construction$64,400.00Ideology/Single-Issue$62,951.00Lawyers & Lobbyists$62,860.00Health$54,520.00Energy/Nat Resource$39,900.00Transportation$39,185.00Communic/Electronics$26,790.00Agribusiness$25,175.00Labor$5,000.00Defense$3,775.00<table style="background-color: rgb(205, 228, 248); margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; border-spacing: 0px; width: 310px;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr class="odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(240, 247, 253);"><td class="span-4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2.5px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; float: left; width: 150px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Cycle</td><td class="span-3 currency" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2.5px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; text-align: right; float: left; width: 110px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">2016</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="span-4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2.5px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; float: left; width: 150px;">Total Raised</td><td class="span-3 currency" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2.5px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; text-align: right; float: left; width: 110px;">$1,124,593.74</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(240, 247, 253);"><td class="span-4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2.5px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; float: left; width: 150px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Total Spent</td><td class="span-3 currency" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2.5px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; text-align: right; float: left; width: 110px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">$1,170,967.21</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="span-4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2.5px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; float: left; width: 150px;">Cash On Hand</td><td class="span-3 currency" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2.5px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; text-align: right; float: left; width: 110px;">$156,797.36</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(240, 247, 253);"><td class="span-4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2.5px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; float: left; width: 150px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Debt</td><td class="span-3 currency" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2.5px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; text-align: right; float: left; width: 110px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">$0.00</td></tr></tbody></table><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00031412&cycle=2016" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background-color: rgb(205, 228, 248);">Data provided by OpenSecrets.org</a>NVR Inc$16,200.00Capital Corp$14,100.00Element Electronics$13,500.00CM Tucker Lumber Companies$12,800.00Sella Dev$10,800.00Delta Air Lines$10,200.00Duke Energy$10,050.00American Bankers Assn$10,000.00American Institute of CPAs$10,000.00Ernst & Young$10,000.00<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-budget-chief-mark-mulvaney-loves-gold-and-bitcoin-2016-12">http://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-budget-chief-mark-mulvaney-loves-gold-and-bitcoin-2016-12</a>...President-elect Donald Trump's federal budget is a big believer in gold, according to financial disclosures.Mick Mulvaney, Trump's pick to lead the Office of Budget and Management, owns significant amounts of precious metals and gold-mining stocks based on financial disclosures <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-29/trump-s-pick-for-budget-chief-liked-gold-had-dim-view-of-dollar?utm_content=markets&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%253D=socialflow-twitter-markets" style="text-decoration-line: none;">compiled by Bloomberg</a>.According to the filings, Mulvaney held $50,000 to $100,000 in precious metals at the end of 2015. In addition, the South Carolina congressman holds stock in numerous gold and silver mining corporations totaling $252,000 to $855,000, according to the filing.<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-29/trump-s-pick-for-budget-chief-liked-gold-had-dim-view-of-dollar?utm_content=markets&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%253D=socialflow-twitter-markets" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Bloomberg found</a> that Mulvaney had sold significant amounts of the gold miners' stock in early 2016, citing financial filings from the end of June.The heavy investments into gold is not surprising given past criticism by Mulvaney of the Federal Reserve. In a speech <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman-trump-russia-fbi-2016-12" style="text-decoration-line: none;">obtained by Mother Jones</a>, Mulvaney told the John Birch Society, a group that believes the <a href="http://www.jbs.org/issues-pages/restore-constitutional-money" style="text-decoration-line: none;">only legal forms of currency are gold and silver coins</a>, that the Fed had "effectively devalued the dollar" and "choke[d] off economic growth."In the same speech, Mulvaney also praised bitcoin, saying the cryptocurrency could not be "manipulated" by the government.Gold-mining stocks have had an up-and-down year. VanEck's Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF — the largest gold-mining sector exchange-traded fund in which Mulvaney had an investment ($15,001 to $50,000) — is up 45% year-to-date but is down roughly 35% from its 2016 high in August.The dollar has strengthened by a little over 5% since the US presidential election, while gold has fallen by roughly 10%. Bitcoin has been surging in the past week, hitting its <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-rises-against-the-dollar-on-december-28-2016-12" style="text-decoration-line: none;">highest level since November 2013 on Thursday</a>.wapoIt’s not the sexiest White House job. But it might soon be among the most dangerous.Over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump tapped Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) to be his director of the Office of Management and Budget. This Cabinet-level post is responsible for producing the federal budget, overseeing and evaluating executive branch agencies and otherwise advising the president on fiscal matters. It’s a position with tremendous, far-reaching power, even if the public doesn’t pay much attention to it.
Which is why it’s so concerning that Trump chose Mulvaney, who seems poised to help Trump ignite another worldwide financial crisis.Mulvaney was first elected to Congress in 2010 as part of the anti-government, tea party wave. A founding member of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, he is among Congress’s most committed fiscal hawks. He has repeatedly voted against his own party’s budget proposals because they were insufficiently conservative.All this will presumably put him at odds with Trump’s plans to balloon federal deficits through a $7 trillion cut in individual and corporate income taxes, another half-trillion in infrastructure subsidies and other major spending expansions.
[The new OMB director’s first order of business? Standing up to Trump.]
It’s unclear how Trump’s fiscally profligate platform meshes with Mulvaney’s preference for penny-pinching. He might push back on Trump’s most expensive ideas. Maybe he’ll employ accounting gimmicks and magic asterisks to force Trump’s numbers to add up. Trump’s campaign advisers have already been doing this, disingenuously claiming that his policies will pay for themselves through unrealistic economic growth.
Or maybe Mulvaney’s job will simply be to convince the rest of the Freedom Caucus to stay mum when deficits explode.
Whatever their differences on line-item details, though, Mulvaney and the president-elect have at least one major thing in common: an alarming openness to defaulting on the federal debt.As you may recall, during the campaign Trump repeatedly flirted with the idea of defaulting on U.S. debt obligations. In a CNBC interview in May, he suggested that his experience in offloading private debt would translate nicely to federal obligations. That is, he’d simply persuade the country’s creditors to accept less than full payment.“I would borrow knowing that if the economy crashed you could make a deal,” he said.When the financial press freaked out, he walked back the language — only to revive it a month later.Mulvaney has also questioned the need to preserve the country’s sterling reputation as a borrower.
He ran for Congress promising to never raise the country’s debt ceiling, and he has mostly kept to that pledge. Since taking office in January 2011, he has voted against (ultimately successful) legislation to raise this ceiling four times. He also publicly questioned whether failing to raise the ceiling would be such a bad thing, and whether it would necessitate defaulting on our debt.
To be clear: It would, and it would.Raising the debt ceiling is about enabling the federal government to make payments that have already been promised, not new spending. Refusing to increase this limit would call into question the country’s creditworthiness.Set aside the fact that this flippancy about making full and timely payments on our debt would likely violate Section 4 of the 14th Amendment. That’s the part of the Constitution that says that the “validity of the public debt of the United States .?.?. shall not be questioned.”From a purely financial perspective, it would be ruinous.
[Donald Trump is serious about smashing GOP orthodoxy]
U.S. Treasurys, currently considered risk-free, are the benchmark of the global financial system. They enjoy safest-of-safe status precisely because creditors believe they’ll be paid back in full. Rattling the public’s faith in our creditworthiness would set off a crisis throughout the world. And of course this would also make it more expensive for the United States to borrow, causing our debt to swell further.One might hope that once Mulvaney adopts his new role, he’ll become more cautious about encouraging default. That seems optimistic, though, given that, as budget expert Stan Collender put it, Mulvaney will probably be the most ideological and least-qualified OMB director in decades.Our best bet is that the two Goldman Sachs alumni taking White House roles (including Treasury secretary, the post directly responsible for managing the public debt) can explain to Trump why these kinds of actions would blow up the world,Let’s just hope they’re the ones he listens to when the time comes.no linksOMGpolicy from pov of taxpayer (bs) jusge effectiveness of safety net pgm by how many ppl we boot?!budget cuts foodstamps
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/15-heartless-proposals-trumps-budget">http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/15-heartless-proposals-trumps-budget</a>...But inside the right-wing bubble that is the Trump White House and GOP-majority Congress, what’s taken as serious policy ideas, spending principles and rationales for the president’s 2018 budget is reality-averse craziness.Even as budget watchers say there’s no way Trump’s blueprint will make it through Congress, the starting line—before compromises, concessions and deals begin—is not just mean, cruel and uninformed; it’s delusional. Not only would the budget hit working-class white voters who bet on Trump like a lottery ticket, but the budget also shows a White House living in a land of make-believe.Don’t take my word for it. Here are 15 excerpts from the transcript of White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney’s briefing Tuesday. The excerpts reveal this crew lives in a land where red ink bleeds, but people don’t; where the only deserving Americans are those who served in the military, not the poor, disabled, hungry nor fixed-income seniors; and where freezing health care spending isn't seen as a cut, even if the marketplace keeps jacking up prices year after year.There have been many <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-disabled-20170522-story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">credible</a>, <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-budget-disabled-people-f2a4708074f0" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lucid</a> and <a href="http://www.ncpssm.org/PressRoom/NewsReleases/Release/ArticleID/1689/Trump-2018-Budget-Literally-Leaves-Seniors-in-the-Cold" style="text-decoration-line: none;">analytical</a> comments about this proposed budget, but sometimes it's important to listen to what the actual authors say, as it is revealing about their thinking and values—or the lack thereof. Take a look.1. This isn’t a budget, it’s dressed-up tax cuts. Mulvaney said as much at the start of his press briefing. “The name on the cover is ‘The New Foundation for American Greatness.’ As I read through it over the weekend, as I did—in fact, we've been working on this since before I actually got here—it struck me that the title should have been different; that the title should have been, "A Taxpayer-First Budget." Because that's what this is... We looked at this budget through the eyes of the people who are actually paying the bills.”2. If they’re hurting people, well, that’s compassion. The George W. Bush administration used to label itself the “compassionate conservatives.” The Trump administration has updated that by saying government needs to take pity on taxpayers, not the recipients of government benefits—even if they are people who have paid taxes for years! “Compassion needs to be on both sides of that equation. Yes, you have to have compassion for folks who are receiving the federal funds, but also you have to have compassion for the folks who are paying it. And that is one of the things that is new about this president’s budget.”0. Yes, that's more than $800 billion in future cuts they're touting. The Obamacare repeal passed by the House takes more than $800 billion out of future Medicaid spending over the next decade. Mulvaney says that will help treat the needy better: “Everyone is interested in seeing the truly needy in their state and in our nation get the care that we promised them in Medicaid. But there's a better way to do it than under current law, which is Obamacare. We can also talk about what a failure that is. But there's a better way to do it, and that's what the American Health Care Act does.”11. They could collect half a trillion in taxes, but will cut safety nets. This exchange from the Q&A part of Mulvaney’s press conference is stunning, as the White House budget director said there are hundreds of billions in uncollected taxes out there, but they don’t think it’s a good thing to collect the funds.<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mulvaney: “The tax gap is the amount of money that we should collect in taxes every single year, but don’t. 2016—that number is $486 billion. Almost enough to close the deficit that year. And we don’t assume an additional penny of that being closed as part of our tax reform. Why is that important? There's probably two reasons that people—well, three reasons people don’t want to pay tax. Number one, they just don’t pay tax, and there's always a certain number of people who don’t want to do that. Number two, it's just too hard for them to do it. It's too complicated for them to do it. Two reasons. Now I feel like I'm a Monty Python skit. But two reasons. And we think that—”Question: “Airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.”Mulvaney: “Exactly. That if it's a simpler tax code, that people are more likely to pay. That simply makes sense. If you can really fill out your tax reform—tax returns on a single piece of paper, you're much more likely to actually do it. It's also easier for us to see if you're paying the right amount. A simpler code is easy for you to pay and easy for the government to see if you're paying the right amount, which would allow us very reasonably to assume a reduction in the tax gap. And we don’t do a single penny of that.”</blockquote>12. The EPA cuts are anti-climate science, but that's not anti-science! Huh? Here, Mulvaney said the Obama administration was overreacting to climate change and the only way to stop that was to eviscerate the Environmental Protection Agency. “What I think you saw happened during the previous administration is the pendulum went too far to one side, where we were spending too much of your money on climate change and not very efficiently. We don’t get rid of it here. Do we target it? Sure. Do a lot of the EPA reductions aimed at reducing the focus on climate science? Yes. Does it mean that we are anti-science? Absolutely not. We're simply trying to get things back in order to where we can look at the folks who pay the taxes, and say, look, yeah, we want to do some climate science, but we're not going to do some of the crazy stuff the previous administration did.” .... People on SSDI—disability—are not really on Social Security and not really disabled. Trump promised older voters would not touch Social Security or Medicare, but Mulvaney says recipients of Social Security’s disability assistance are not really on Social Security and are just lazy and trying to avoid work. “Social Security disability. It is a welfare program for the long-term disabled. It is not what most people would consider to be Social Security... There are people who are getting SSDI who should not be getting it.”15. Same with food stamps; people pretend to be hungry. This is unbelievable, pretending that there is no such thing as hunger in America, because national economic statistics are saying we’ve emerged from the 2008 recession. “During bad economic times, more people will go onto food stamps. So it's completely within reason to look at that number—it went from 28 million on food stamps before the recession to 47 million at the height. It's 44 or 42 today. Yet here we are, eight years removed from the end of the recession. We've had economic growth, albeit slow. We're at what we consider to be full employment… Why is the number still that high?The White House’s Right-Wing BubbleThe release of the White House’s proposed FY 2018 budget, for the year starting October 1, has prompted plenty of serious analyses—including <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/budget-spending-federal-deficit.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0" style="text-decoration-line: none;">some</a> saying its assumptions fall apart if its 3 percent growth prediction is off. But those mainstream analyses are playing along as if this is a serious proposal grounded in grown-up governing. It’s not. Mulvaney, you may have noticed, did not discuss real details from federal programs to be fine-tuned.This is another dressed-up version of the only thing this administration wants to do—cut taxes for the rich and make an army of contractors rich via privatization. This budget stops government revenues and blows up federal programs, leaving it up to states to clean up the mess. At the end of the briefing, Mulvaney was again asked by a reporter about cutting food stamps. Only on Monday did NPR air a report on how hunger was widespread throughout Appalachia and in many states that voted for Trump.“Folks who are out there who are on food stamps and want to work, we'll be able to work with them to solve the problem,” he replied. “They are not what’s causing the difficulties in SNAP [food stamps]. It's the folks who are on there who don't want to work. And that's what we're trying to point out to people is, look, if there’s 44 million people on there, eight years from the end of the recession, maybe, maybe it's reasonable to ask if there are folks who are on there who shouldn’t be. That is a reasonable question to ask. I would even suggest to you it's a compassionate question to ask.” <div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div>  ==http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/16/515578360/senate-narrowly-confirms-mulvaney-as-trumps-nominee-for-omb-director<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">Rep. Mick Mulvaney, President Trump's pick to lead the White House's Office of Management and Budget, won a close confirmation vote in the full Senate on Thursday, two weeks after the Senate Budget Committee advanced the South Carolina Republican's nomination by a 12-11 vote.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">In a back-and-forth voice vote, the tally was 50-47 when Sen. Mitch McConnell's name was called. His "aye" vote sealed the nomination with 51 senators in favor. As the votes rolled in, groups of Democrats and Republicans huddled on the Senate floor, locked in conversation.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">Immediately after the vote, McConnell took the floor to begin consideration of another Trump nomination — that of <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/07/503626660/trump-reportedly-picks-oklahoma-attorney-general-scott-pruitt-to-lead-epa" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt</a> for the post of U.S. EPA administrator.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">Democrats who opposed Mulvaney's nomination spoke of his view that Social Security and Medicare must be overhauled — a move that, as <a href="http://www.npr.org/2017/01/24/511468429/budget-director-nominee-splits-with-trump-on-entitlement-reform" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">NPR's Scott Horsley reported</a> last month, Trump promised not to undertake.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">At least one Republican — Sen. John McCain of Arizona — had <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2017/02/15/john-mccain-opposes-confirmation-donald-trump-budget-nominee-mick-mulvaney/97966096/" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">said he would vote against</a> Mulvaney's confirmation, in a move McCain said was based on the congressman's position on defense spending. In the past, McCain also faulted Mulvaney for his role in the 2013 government shutdown.<aside id="ad-backstage-wrap" aria-label="advertisement" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><aside id="ad-mobilebackfill-wrap" aria-label="advertisement" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">Mulvaney "is a prominent member of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of around 40 conservatives that grew out of the Tea Party movement," <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/17/505964561/trump-announces-nomination-of-s-c-s-mulvaney-to-head-budget-office" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">as we reported</a> when his nomination was announced.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">In the House, Mulvaney played a prominent role in the shutdown of the federal government over a budget impasse in late 2013. He had advocated for a similar shutdown back in 2011.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">Mulvaney's confirmation follows a setback for Trump: On Wednesday, his labor secretary nominee, fast-food executive Andrew Puzder, <a href="http://www.npr.org/2017/02/15/515425370/trump-labor-pick-andrew-puzders-nomination-appears-in-jeopardy" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">withdrew his nam</a>e from consideration after failing to get enough support from Republicans.<table style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" width="540" border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="540">Feb. 16, 2017Will Mulvaney Drop His Anti-Government Extremism at OMB?

Statement of Lisa Gilbert, Director, Public Citizen’s Congress Watch Division

Note: Today, the U.S. Senate voted to approve President Donald Trump’s nominee to direct the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), U.S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.). The Coalition for Sensible Safeguards and 52 groups <a href="http://sensiblesafeguards.org/press/52-groups-coalition-sensible-safeguards-oppose-mulvaney-extreme-direct-omb/" style="text-decoration: none;">opposed</a> the nomination. OMB coordinates the president’s legislative proposals and polices, proposes and implements the federal budget, oversees executive branch departments and agencies as well as federal procurement, manages the regulatory process, implements executive orders and much more.

Anti-government extremism has no place at OMB. As a South Carolina congressman, Mulvaney was a proud ringleader of government shutdowns and default threats and an outspoken advocate for steep cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. But as he repeatedly acknowledged in his confirmation hearings, those views are fundamentally incompatible with his new role as White House budget director. Mulvaney now must demonstrate that he can set aside his past as a radical and practice responsible governance.</td></tr></tbody></table><a href="http://www.globalpossibilities.org/the-worse-anti-science-nonsense-of-2016/">http://www.globalpossibilities.org/the-worse-anti-science-nonsense-of-2016/</a>
<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The climate-denying cabinet</h3>

Trump has <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/11/climate-deniers-trump-administration">loaded up his incoming administration</a> with officials who, to varying extents, share his views on climate change. Vice President-elect Mike Pence <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/07/mike-pence-climate-change">once called global warming a “myth,”</a> though he now acknowledges that humans have “<a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2016/11/pences-stance-on-climate-change/">some impact on climate</a>.” Scott Pruitt, Trump’s pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435470/climate-change-attorneys-general">wrote in May</a>

that “scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of

global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind.” Energy

secretary nominee Rick Perry <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rick-perry-suggests-global-warming-is-a-hoax/">once alleged</a> that “a substantial number” of climate scientists had “manipulated data.” Trump’s interior secretary nominee, Ryan Zinke, <a href="http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/government-and-politics/lewis-zinke-debate-federal-budget-health-care-global-warming/article_d062bc3c-c8e9-5909-854f-5e78efc52868.html">believes that climate change</a>

is “not a hoax, but it’s not proven science either.” Ben Carson (see

above) is slated to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development,

an agency <a href="http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=HUD2014CCAdaptPlan.pdf">facing serious challenges</a> from global warming. Mulvaney, the incoming White House budget director, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140425001752/http:/www.mulvaneyforcongress.com/issues-2/energy/">has said</a>

we shouldn’t abandon domestic fossil fuels “because of baseless claims

regarding global warming.” Attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jeff-sessions-no-major-hurricanes-in-ten-years-thank-the-lord/">claimed in 2015</a> that predictions of warming “aren’t coming true.”<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump’s budget director isn’t sure the government should fund Zika research</h3>

Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), Donald Trump’s choice to head the White House Office of Management and Budget, isn’t just a <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/the-anti-science-climate-denier-caucus-732ec3a2a4d4#.qbtggg1v6">global warming denier</a>. As <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/trumps-pick-budget-director-isnt-sure-government-should-fund-scientific-research">Mother Jones reported</a>,

he recently questioned whether the government should even fund

scientific research. In September, Mulvaney took to Facebook to discuss

the <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/zika-funding-bill-fails-again-227805">congressional showdown</a>

over urgently needed funding for the Zika epidemic — money that would

pay for mosquito control, vaccine studies, and research into the effects

of the virus. (Among other disputes, Republicans sought to prevent

Planned Parenthood from receiving Zika funds.)

“[D]o we need government-funded research at all[?]” wrote Mulvaney in

his since-deleted post. Even more remarkably, he went on to raise

doubts about whether Zika really causes microcephaly in babies. As <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/12/20/trump_omb_chief_pick_mick_mulvaney_questions_need_for_funding_science.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Slate’s Phil Plait</a> noted, “<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/zika/hc-providers/infants-children/zika-microcephaly.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There is wide scientific consensus</a> that Zika and microcephaly are linked, and <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2016/s0413-zika-microcephaly.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">had been for some time</a> before Mulvaney wrote that.”
<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/house/Mick_Mulvaney.htm">http://www.ontheissues.org/house/Mick_Mulvaney.htm</a><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="text-align: left;">Rated 0% by <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Note-UFCH.asp">UFCW</a>, indicating a pro-management voting record. (May 2012)</li></ul>= "Mick" Mulvaney (born July 21, 1967) is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">American</a> politician who has been the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">U.S. Representative</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina%27s_5th_congressional_district" title="South Carolina's 5th congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">South Carolina's 5th congressional district</a> since 2011. He is a member of the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Republican Party</a>. Mulvaney previously served as a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Senate" title="South Carolina Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">South Carolina Senate</a>, representing the 16th district (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster_County,South_Carolina" title="Lancaster County, South Carolina" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Lancaster</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_County,South_Carolina" title="York County, South Carolina" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">York</a> Counties),<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-NRCC_News-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-WP-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a> from 2009 to 2011. He is the first Republican to represent South Carolina's 5th district since 1883.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a>
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</div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#Early_life.2C_education.2C_and_early_career" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1 Early life, education, and early career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#South_Carolina_legislature" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2 South Carolina legislature</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#State_House" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2.1 State House</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#State_Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2.2 State Senate</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#U.S.House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3 U.S. House of Representatives</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#Elections" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3.1 Elections</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3.2 Committee assignments</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#Caucus_memberships" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3.3 Caucus memberships</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4 Personal life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#References" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">5 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">6 External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.1875px;">Early life, education, and early career<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick_Mulvaney&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life, education, and early career" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Mulvaney was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,Virginia" title="Alexandria, Virginia" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Alexandria, Virginia</a> and grew up in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte,North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Charlotte, North Carolina</a> before moving to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Land,South_Carolina" title="Indian Land, South Carolina" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Indian Land, South Carolina</a>. Mulvaney attended <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Georgetown University</a> where he majored in International Economics, Commerce and Finance. At Georgetown, he was an Honors Scholar, the highest level of academic achievement awarded to members of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_A.Walsh_School_of_Foreign_Service" title="Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Georgetown School of Foreign Service</a>, and ultimately graduated with honors in 1989. Mulvaney attended law school at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill" title="University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</a>. He earned a full scholarship to attend law school, where his focus was on anti-trust law. He graduated with his law degree in 1992.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a>From 1992 to 1997, Mulvaney practiced law with the firm James, McElroy & Diehl. Mulvaney joined his family's homebuilding and real estate business. He participated in the Owners and Presidents Management Program at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Business_School" title="Harvard Business School" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Harvard Business School</a>. In addition, he had been a minority shareholder and Owner-Operator in Salsarita's Fresh Cantina, a privately held regional restaurant chain.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.1875px;">South Carolina legislature<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick_Mulvaney&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: South Carolina legislature" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.1875px;">State House<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick_Mulvaney&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: State House" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Mulvaney was elected to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_House_of_Representatives" title="South Carolina House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">South Carolina House of Representatives</a> in 2006, becoming the first Republican ever elected to that position in his district.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.1875px;">State Senate<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick_Mulvaney&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: State Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In 2008 an unexpected retirement created a vacancy in the South Carolina Senate and he campaigned for and won that office in what was widely regarded to be the hardest fought legislative race in South Carolina that year.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a>While in the State Senate, Mulvaney served on the Judiciary, Labor/Commerce/Industry, Medical Affairs, Agriculture/Natural Resources, and Corrections Committees. The Palmetto Family Council identified him as the Freshman Legislator of the Year in 2006 for his work on the South Carolina ultrasound bill.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a> In 2010 he was named Legislator of the Year for his work in support of the State's Emergency Medical Services (EMS). He has received one of the few A+ ratings in the entire legislature from the South Carolina <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_for_Growth" title="Club for Growth" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Club for Growth</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.1875px;">U.S. House of Representatives<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick_Mulvaney&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: U.S. House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.1875px;">Elections<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick_Mulvaney&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Elections" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit</a>]</h3><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px;"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2010</dt></dl><div class="rellink boilerplate seealso" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px;">See also: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_South_Carolina,2010#District_5" title="United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2010" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2010#District 5</a></div>Mulvaney, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOP_Young_Gun" title="GOP Young Gun" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">GOP Young Gun</a>, ran against Democratic incumbent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M.Spratt,Jr." title="John M. Spratt, Jr." class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">John Spratt</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina%27s_5th_congressional_district" title="South Carolina's 5th congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">South Carolina's 5th congressional district</a>. The race was highlighted by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Mitt Romney</a>'s Free and Strong America PAC's "Take Congress Back: 10 in '10" initiative as one of the top 10 House challenger races. During the campaign, Mulvaney's involvement in the now defunct Edenmoor real estate development in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster_County,South_Carolina" title="Lancaster County, South Carolina" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Lancaster County, South Carolina</a> came to public attention.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a> Mulvaney's opponents alleged that Mulvaney misled the Lancaster County council and taxpayers to provide some $30 million in public funding for the Edenmoor real estate development and that once the public funds had been approved, Mulvaney sold his interest in the development to a third party at a substantial profit.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-Edenmoor-11" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a> Mulvaney denied the allegations and claimed that the project's failure was due to Democratic economic policies.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-Edenmoor-11" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a>Mulvaney defeated Spratt, who had held the seat since 1983; he received 55% of the vote to Spratt's 45%.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[13]</a>Mulvaney's campaign against Spratt was aided by a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)organization#501.28c.29.284.29" title="501(c) organization" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">501(c)(4) organization</a> named the Commission on Hope, Growth, and Opportunity. The group, which was established by anonymous donors and run by lobbyist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scott_W.Reed&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Scott W. Reed (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Scott W. Reed</a>, has been accused by the watchdog <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington" title="Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a> of violating federal campaign finance laws and disclosing false information to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Service" title="Internal Revenue Service" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Internal Revenue Service</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px;"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2012</dt></dl><div class="rellink boilerplate seealso" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px;">See also: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_South_Carolina,2012#District_5" title="United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2012" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2012#District 5</a></div>He won re-election to a second term, by defeating Democrat Joyce Knott 56%-44%.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[15]</a><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.1875px;">Committee assignments<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; 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background-image: none;">Committee on Financial Services</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Small_Business" title="United States House Committee on Small Business" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Committee on Small Business</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Small_Business_Subcommittee_on_Healthcare_and_Technology" title="United States House Small Business Subcommittee on Healthcare and Technology" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Subcommittee on Healthcare and Technology</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Small_Business_Subcommittee_on_Economic_Growth,Tax_and_Capital_Access" title="United States House Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Small_Business_Subcommittee_on_Contracting_and_Workforce" title="United States House Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce</a> (Chairman)</li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.1875px;">Caucus memberships<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick_Mulvaney&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Caucus memberships" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit</a>]</h3><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Study_Committee" title="Republican Study Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Republican Study Committee</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Caucus" title="Tea Party Caucus" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Tea Party Caucus</a></li></ul><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.1875px;">Personal life<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick_Mulvaney&action=edit&section=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit</a>]</h2>He is the son of Mike and Kathy Mulvaney and has two siblings. Mulvaney married Pamela West in 1998; they have three children (a set of triplets).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[16]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.1875px;">References<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick_Mulvaney&action=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-NRCC_News-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_ref-NRCC_News_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nrcc.org/default.asp?id=274&newsid=1113" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Mick Mulvaney Advances to 'On the Radar'"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Republican_Congressional_Committee" title="National Republican Congressional Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">National Republican Congressional Committee</a> (NRCC). 6 January 2010. 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Retrieved 10 August 2010.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMick+Mulvaney&rft.btitle=The+Club+for+Growth&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.votesmart.org%2Fissue_rating_detail.php%3Fr_id%3D4926&rft.pub=VoteSmart.Org&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }Collins, Jeffrey (October 8, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aikenstandard.com/State/m1066-BC-SC-5thDistrict-LandD-1stLd-Writethru-10-07-0571" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Congressman attacks opponent over land deal"</a>. Aiken Standard. Associated Press.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMick+Mulvaney&rft.atitle=Congressman+attacks+opponent+over+land+deal&rft.au=Collins%2C+Jeffrey&rft.aufirst=Jeffrey&rft.aulast=Collins&rft.date=October+8%2C+2010&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aikenstandard.com%2FState%2Fm1066-BC-SC-5thDistrict-LandD-1stLd-Writethru-10-07-0571&rft.jtitle=Aiken+Standard&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-Edenmoor-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_ref-Edenmoor_11-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_ref-Edenmoor_11-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">b</a> Overman, Jenny (October 19, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heraldonline.com/2010/10/19/2540127/mulvaney-refutes-latest-edenmoor.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Mulvaney refutes latest Edenmoor accusation"</a>. Rock Hill Herald.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMick+Mulvaney&rft.atitle=Mulvaney+refutes+latest+Edenmoor+accusation&rft.aufirst=Jenny&rft.aulast=Overman&rft.au=Overman%2C+Jenny&rft.date=October+19%2C+2010&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heraldonline.com%2F2010%2F10%2F19%2F2540127%2Fmulvaney-refutes-latest-edenmoor.html&rft.jtitle=Rock+Hill+Herald&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_ref-12" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }Smith, Stanley (October 29, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://heraldindependent.com/bookmark/10080880-Mulvaney-Edenmoor-%E2%80%93-I-Was-There" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Mulvaney & Edenmoor – I Was There"</a>. 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Retrieved 2012-05-28.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMick+Mulvaney&rft.btitle=2010+General+Election&rft.date=November+18%2C+2010&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.enr-scvotes.org%2FSC%2F19077%2F40477%2Fen%2Fsummary.html&rft.pub=South+Carolina+State+Election+Commission&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#cite_ref-14" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }Weisman, Jonathan (July 17, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/us/politics/hope-growth-and-opportunity-shows-limits-of-disclosure-rules.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Tax-Exempt Group’s Election Activity Highlights Limits of Campaign Finance Rules"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">The New York Times</a>. 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Mick Mulvaney earned his place right up there in the pantheon. When the 11th hour deal to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the government was struck between Senate leaders Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, it did not have much trouble getting through both houses of Congress. But there were those Republicans deluding themselves that they could fight on.Rep. Mulvaney of South Carolina was one—and among his objections? The deal, he said, included funding for Joseph Kony’s Uganda-based Lord’s Resistance Army. Now, that would be pretty evil if it were true. Kony is an exiled war criminal with a messianic complex known for kidnapping children, and turning them into sex slaves and soldiers who kill their own families. The funding, if Mr. Mulvaney had read a little closer, was a small amount earmarked to the Pentagon which is funding African troops trying to capture Kony and end his reign of terror and atrocity. Ohhhh...oops. It seems Sen. David Vitter isn’t the only Republican in Congress Harry Reid could legitimately claim was not playing with a full deck.desmog
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style=""><div class="field-items" style=""><div class="field-item even" style=""><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Credentials</h2><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li>B.S.F.S., Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (1989). <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></li><li>J.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. (1992). <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></li></ul><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Background</h2>John Michael <a href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001182" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">“Mick” Mulvaney</a> is a Representative from South Carolina. He was a member of the South Carolina state house of representatives from 2007 to 2009, member of the South Carolina Senate from 2009 to 2010, and elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Twelfth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2011-present). <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170210035804/https://www.conservativereview.com/members/mick-mulvaney/biography/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mick Mulvaney </a>was elected during the 2010 “Tea Party” wave.He received a degree in international economics, commerce, and finance from Georgetown University and a law degree from the University of North Carolina. Before working in government, Mulvaney practiced law for several years and then joined his family's real estate business. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s2" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a>Mick Mulvaney,<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/17/mick-mulvaney-trump-office-management-budget" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> chosen by President Trump to lead the Office of Management and Budget</a>, is known as a budget “hawk” who has historically wished to cut federal spending. Mulvaney said he would restore budgetary and fiscal sanity […] after eight years of an out-of-control, tax-and-spend financial agenda” under the Obama administration. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s3" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/mick-mulvaney" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">According to the League of Conservation Voter's “National Environmental Scorecard,”</a> Mick Mulvaney has a lifetime score of 7%, and a 2015 score of 3%, with the majority of his votes classified as “anti-environment.”Mulvaney has historically opposed funding for planned parenthood. In 2015, he<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170211022609/https://mulvaney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-mulvaney-leads-letter-house-leadership-defund-planned-parenthood" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> called on House Republicans </a>“to use every available tool to strip this organization [Planned Parenthood' of any and all taxpayer funds.”He has <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/mick-mulvaney-budget-office-234061" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">called Social Security a “Ponzi Scheme,”</a> a view that he <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-mick-mulvaney-social-security_us_58877846e4b096b4a234a4a0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">did not renounce </a>at his 2017 confirmation hearing.<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s4" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [4],</a> <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s5" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s6" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s7" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Trump Pick as Director of the Office of Management and Budget</h3>In December, 2016, Donald Trump<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/us/politics/mick-mulvaney-office-management-budget-trump.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> selected Mick Mulvaney</a> for the position of Director of the Office of Management and Budget. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s8" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“He’s a tremendous talent, especially when it comes to numbers and budgets,”  Trump said in a statement.</blockquote>The Club for Growth <a href="http://www.clubforgrowth.org/federal-budget/club-for-growth-applauds-choice-of-mulvaney-to-head-omb/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">applauded Trump's choice</a> of Mulvaney as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, announcing that “The days of the White House producing massive, ridiculous budgets that are dead on arrival on Capitol Hill are over.” Club for Growth president David McIntosh described Mick Mulvaney as  “a leader among economic conservatives, and the Trump Administration’s selection is a major victory for taxpayers and for all who want to see the downsizing of the federal government. […]” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s9" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[9]</a>Mulvaney's nomination could face some challenges, given his disclosure that he failed to pay taxes for a household employee in the early 2000s. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/mick-mulvaneys-unpaid-taxes-trump-budget-director/513578/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Atlantic reported</a> that He had failed to pay more than $15,000 in taxes, noting that such disclosures have threatened the nominations of high-profile presidential picks in the past.<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s10" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [10]</a>During his confirmation hearing, Muck Mulvaney made a number of statements at odds with the views of President Trump. For example, Mulvaney believed that tax increases could be on the table. Associated Press<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mick-mulvaney-trumps-omb-pick-faces-senate-hearing/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> reported</a> that Mulvaney said he would be open to increasing the amount of wages subject to the Social Security payroll tax, in addition to gradually raising the retirement age and other benefit cuts. While as a member of Congress Mulvaney had signed a pledge not to raise taxes, he has said “I will not be bound by that.”<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s11" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [11]</a><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Stance on Climate Change</h2>January 24, 2017At his confirmation hearing as nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-budget-pick-mulvaney-climate-change_us_5887aabce4b0441a8f714ea9" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">said he did not believe climate change is a major risk</a>. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) pressed Mick Mulvaney on his climate change views (video below): <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s12" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a><div class="vdb_player " vdb_params="m.refbcid=56000e19e4b0e4e194b84b31&m.refpid=5668ae6ee4b0b5e26955d6a6" style=""><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Climate change driven partly by human-generated CO2 emissions is a huge risk ― agree or disagree?” Kaine asked.After trying to avoid the question, claiming that climate change was not part of the responsibilities of the OMBdirector, Kaine still demanded an answer. </blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“I’m not asking about OMB. I’m off OMB now,” Kaine said. “Statement of fact, agree or disagree ― you’re gonna follow the facts ― climate change driven partly by human-generated CO2 emissions is a huge risk, agree or disagree?”“I’m not convinced we’re at the point where we have to start to require American citizens to pay high prices ―” Mulvaney began to reply, before Kaine interjected.“I’m just asking, do you agree with the fact. Is climate change driven by human-generated CO2 emissions a huge risk?” Kaine repeated.“Yeah, I challenge the premise of your fact,” Mulvaney said.</blockquote>2010On his <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100722061044/http://www.mulvaneyforcongress.com/issues-2" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">congressional bid website, archived in 2010</a>, Mulvaney described climate change as “questionable science”:<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s13" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [13]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Energy independence, green technology, and innovation is something we should pursue as a nation. However, we shouldn’t seek to accomplish that by taxing people based on questionable science. Neither should we ignore domestic energy resources – coal, natural gas, oil – because of baseless claims regarding global warming.“I believe that making it easier to drill for and use domestic resources, build nuclear power plants, and develop new technologies is the best formula for ending the current energy regime, which essentially has us empowering governments and groups that are markedly anti-American.”</blockquote><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Key Quotes</h2>September 9, 2016<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/trumps-pick-budget-director-isnt-sure-government-should-fund-scientific-research" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mother Jones reports </a>that in a September 9 Facebook post, Mulvaney questioned whether the federal government should be spending any money on scientific research: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s14" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“[D]o we need government-funded research at all,” he wrote. Mother Jones notes that Mulvaney appeared to have deleted his Facebook page since then. In his post, Mulvaney tries to justify his position on government-funded research by questioning the scientific consensus that the Zika virus causes the birth defect microcephaly. Mulvaney wrote: “And before you inundate me with pictures of children with birth defects, consider this:Brazil's microcephaly epidemic continues to pose a mystery – if Zika is the culprit, why are there no similar epidemics in countries also hit hard by the virus? In Brazil, the microcephaly rate soared with more than 1,500 confirmed cases. But in Colombia, a recent study of nearly 12,000 pregnant women infected with Zika found zero microcephaly cases. If Zika is to blame for microcephaly, where are the missing cases? According to a new report from the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), the number of missing cases in Colombia and elsewhere raises serious questions about the assumed connection between Zika and microcephaly.”</blockquote>An image of the full post below: [pix]April 27, 2011<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170211023902/http://www.heraldonline.com/latest-news/article12272801.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Speaking at a town hall meeting in Rock Hill,</a> Mick Mulvaney declared:<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s15" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [15]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Medicare as it exists today is finished.” </blockquote><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Top Campaign Contributors</h2><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2016&type=C&cid=N00031412&newMem=N&recs=20" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">According to data from OpenSecrets.org</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-industries-inc" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Koch Industries </a>was consistently a top donor to Mick Mulvaney and his related Leadership PACs. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duke_Energy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Duke Energy </a>was another consistent backer. View top ten donors below, or see the attached spreadsheet for <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Mick%20Mulvaney%20Campaign%20Contributions.xlsx" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mick Mulvaney's campaign donors by year (.xlsx)</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s16" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a><table style="font-style: italic; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; width: 598px;" width="664" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="1"><tbody><tr height="21"><td style="width: 295px;" width="316" height="21">Contributor</td><td style="width: 71px;" width="87">2012</td><td style="width: 65px;" width="87">2014</td><td style="width: 70px;" width="87">2016</td><td style="width: 77px;" width="87">Grand Total</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 295px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Blue_Cross_and_Blue_Shield_Association" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-style: normal;">Blue Cross/Blue Shield</a></td><td style="width: 71px;" align="right">$15,000</td><td style="width: 65px;" align="right">$30,500</td><td style="width: 70px;" align="right">$4,750</td><td style="width: 77px;" align="right">$50,250</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 295px;" height="21"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-industries-inc" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Koch Industries</a></td><td style="width: 71px;" align="right">$12,000</td><td style="width: 65px;" align="right">$18,000</td><td style="width: 70px;" align="right">$20,000</td><td style="width: 77px;" align="right">$50,000</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 295px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Financial_Services_Association" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-style: normal;">American Financial Services Assn</a></td><td style="width: 71px;" align="right">$5,000</td><td style="width: 65px;" align="right">$18,000</td><td style="width: 70px;" align="right">$15,000</td><td style="width: 77px;" align="right">$38,000</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 295px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Automobile_Dealers_Association" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-style: normal;">National Auto Dealers Assn</a></td><td style="width: 71px;" align="right">$15,000</td><td style="width: 65px;" align="right">$10,000</td><td style="width: 70px;" align="right">$10,000</td><td style="width: 77px;" align="right">$35,000</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 295px;" height="21">Tucker Lumber</td><td style="width: 71px;" align="right">$15,000</td><td style="width: 65px;" align="right">$13,200</td><td style="width: 70px;">
</td><td style="width: 77px;" align="right">$28,200</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 295px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duke_Energy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Duke Energy</a></td><td style="width: 71px;" align="right">$8,000</td><td style="width: 65px;" align="right">$10,000</td><td style="width: 70px;" align="right">$10,050</td><td style="width: 77px;" align="right">$28,050</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 295px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Bankers_Association" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-style: normal;">American Bankers Assn</a></td><td style="width: 71px;" align="right">$7,500</td><td style="width: 65px;" align="right">$10,000</td><td style="width: 70px;" align="right">$10,000</td><td style="width: 77px;" align="right">$27,500</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 295px;" height="21">Credit Union National Assn</td><td style="width: 71px;" align="right">$10,250</td><td style="width: 65px;" align="right">$10,000</td><td style="width: 70px;" align="right">$5,000</td><td style="width: 77px;" align="right">$25,250</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 295px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Delta_Air_Lines" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-style: normal;">Delta Air Lines</a></td><td style="width: 71px;" align="right">$2,500</td><td style="width: 65px;" align="right">$12,100</td><td style="width: 70px;" align="right">$10,200</td><td style="width: 77px;" align="right">$24,800</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 295px;" height="21">American Society of Anesthesiologists</td><td style="width: 71px;" align="right">$7,500</td><td style="width: 65px;" align="right">$10,000</td><td style="width: 70px;" align="right">$6,000</td><td style="width: 77px;" align="right">$23,500</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 295px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Investment_Company_Institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-style: normal;">Investment Co Institute</a></td><td style="width: 71px;">
</td><td style="width: 65px;" align="right">$12,000</td><td style="width: 70px;" align="right">$10,000</td><td style="width: 77px;" align="right">$22,000</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 295px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SCANA" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-style: normal;">Scana Corp</a></td><td style="width: 71px;" align="right">$6,500</td><td style="width: 65px;" align="right">$9,000</td><td style="width: 70px;" align="right">$6,000</td><td style="width: 77px;" align="right">$21,500</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 295px;" height="21">CM Tucker Lumber Companies</td><td style="width: 71px;" align="right">$2,500</td><td style="width: 65px;" align="right">$5,200</td><td style="width: 70px;" align="right">$12,800</td><td style="width: 77px;" align="right">$20,500</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 295px;" height="21">AFLAC Inc</td><td style="width: 71px;" align="right">$5,000</td><td style="width: 65px;" align="right">$7,500</td><td style="width: 70px;" align="right">$7,500</td><td style="width: 77px;" align="right">$20,000</td></tr><tr><td style="width: 295px;" height="21">National Assn of Insurance & Financial Advisors</td><td style="width: 71px;">
</td><td style="width: 65px;" align="right">$10,000</td><td style="width: 70px;" align="right">$10,000</td><td style="width: 77px;" align="right">$20,000</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 295px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ernst%26_Young" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-style: normal;">Ernst & Young</a></td><td style="width: 71px;">
</td><td style="width: 65px;" align="right">$10,000</td><td style="width: 70px;" align="right">$10,000</td><td style="width: 77px;" align="right">$20,000</td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Key Deeds</h2>January 24, 2017Mick Mulvaney <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/01/24/Watch-live-Mick-Mulvaneys-budget-director-confirmation-hearing/3541485262894/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">appeared for his confirmation hearing to become director of the Office of Management and Budget</a>. Full video below: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s17" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[17]</a>[vid]<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/business/trump-budget-pick-mulvaney-faces-senate-hearing/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">During his confirmation hearing</a>, Mulvaney said that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid would need significant changes. Mulvaney said that he would not propose cutting Social Security or Medicare benefits for those already receiving them. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s18" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[18]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“I’m not making my parents go back to work,” Mulvaney said. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s18" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[18]</a></blockquote>However, he also added that younger workers should expect to work longer than their parents. <blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“I think folks on Social Security and Medicare ought to be really worried,” said Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. “The alarm bells should be going off right now.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s18" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[18]</a></blockquote>Senator Bernie Sanders read quotes from Trump's campaign where Trump had said he would not cut the benefit programs.   <blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“The only thing I know to do is to tell the president the truth,” Mulvaney said. “I have to imagine that the president knew who he was getting,” he added. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s18" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[18]</a></blockquote>On January 25, the Tea-Party-Affiliated <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/freedomworks" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">FreedomWorks</a> sent out social media advertising promoting Mulvaney as an OMBDirector pick.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/FreedomWorks/photos/a.160623489547.115359.5633824547/10155097258929548/?type=3" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> The FreedomWorks ad reads</a>:<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s19" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [19]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Yesterday, John McCain joined the Democrats to attack Rep. Mick Mulvaney, Trump's pick to head his OMB. This is wrong.Call John McCain at 202-883-5773 and tell him to stand with you and support Rep. Mick Mulvaney for OMBright now.”</blockquote>July, 2016Mich Mulvaney spoke at an event hosted by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Birch_Society" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">John Birch Society</a>, an “ultra-conservative” group known for its continued emphasis on the communist threat and described by some as an embarrassment for the right, <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/trump-mulvaney-john-birch-society" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">reported Mother Jones</a>.<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s20" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [20]</a>Mulvaney's speech would address “the Federal Reserve's role in bailing out Europe.”<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">Mother Jones obtained audio of the speech, noting that Mulvaney proceeded to criticize the Federal Reserve, saying its actions have “effectively devalued the dollar” and “choke[d] off economic growth.” He praised bitcoin as a currency that is “not manipulatable by any government.” He told his audience, “You all put out some really good stuff and it's always interesting.” He said he was “looking forward to reading The Shadows of Power,” a 1988 book by James Perloff with the subtitle “The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline.” The book advances conspiracy theories about the New York-based think tank, alleging that it advocates “the creation of a world government.” After referring to this book, he told the crowd, “Keep doing it.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s20" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[20]</a></blockquote>March 15, 2016Mick Mulvaney introduced a bill, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4745/text" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">H.R. 4745</a>, that <a href="http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article66953797.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">would allow nuclear waste to be stored in interim storage facilities</a>. While Mulvaney didn't specify where the interim site would be, he said the material should not stay in South Carolina or at power plants in other states.<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s21" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [21]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s22" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[22]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">Power plants “are in the power generation business,’’ he said. “They’re not supposed to be in the waste-management business. The whole idea is the best way to manage this stuff was to put it at one site.’’ <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s22" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[22]</a></blockquote>August 13, 2014Mick Mulvaney was one of 54 members of Congress to sign an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150708014940/http://pompeo.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=390758" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">letter to the House Leadership </a>calling to end the Wind Production Tax Credit. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s23" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[23]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“[W]e believe Congress should stop picking winners and losers and finally end the wind PTC,” the letter concludes. ” We applaud Chairman Camp’s leadership on this important issue and urge you to stand firm with him in opposition to extending this provision and allow the wind energy to compete on its own.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s23" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[23]</a></blockquote>July 11, 2014Mick Mulvaney was a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/5078/cosponsors" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">co-sponsor </a>of bill <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/5078" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">H.R.5078</a>, which would prevent the expansion of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waters_of_the_United_States" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Waters of the United States</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s24" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[24]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s25" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[25]</a>May 12, 2011Mick Mulvaney was <a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll320.xml" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">one of those who voted “yes”</a> on <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/01231" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Reversing President Obama's Offshore Moratorium Act (Bill H.1231)</a>. The bill would open up the outer Continental Shelf to drilling, an area containing an estimated 2.5 billion barrels of oil, and more than 7.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s26" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[26]</a>,<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s27" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [27]</a>April 7, 2011Mick Mulvaney voted “yes” to bar the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases. From the congressional summary, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/00910" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the Energy Tax Prevention Act (Bill H.910</a>): <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s28" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[28]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s29" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[29]</a><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li>Excludes GHGs from the definition of “air pollutant” for purposes of addressing climate change.</li><li>Exempts from such prohibition existing regulations on fuel efficiency, research, or CO2 monitoring.</li><li>Repeals and makes ineffective other rules and actions concerning GHGs.</li></ul>July 27, 2010Mick Mulvaney <a href="http://3l3p1249trelq9s5lhchgf11.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Mick_Mulvaney.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">signed the “No Climate Tax” pledge (PDF) </a>sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the National Taxpayers Union, and the Institute for Liberty. His pledge reads as follows: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s30" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[30]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“I, Mick Mulvaney, pledge to the taxpayers of the State of South Carolina and to the American people that I will oppose any legislation related to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s30" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[30]</a></blockquote><img alt="" src="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Screen%20Shot%202017-02-07%20at%2011.01.18%20PM.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: 178px; width: 500px;" />April, 2010Mick Mulvaney was a signatory to the 2010 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15contract.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Contract from America</a>, a legislative agenda put forward by the Tea Party movement and unveiled the day before Tea Party Protests scheduled to be held across the country on April 15, Tax Day. The contract took inspiration from the Contract With America, released by Representative Newt Gingrich and fellow Republicans in the 1994 midterm elections, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15contract.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">reports </a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15contract.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The New York Times</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s31" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[31]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s32" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[32]</a>Oneof the<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170210025312/http://contractfromamerica.org/the-contract-from-america/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> contract's “agenda items” </a>is to “Reject Cap & Trade” and “Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation’s global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s33" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[33]</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170210023235/http://contractfromamerica.org/about/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Contract from Americ</a>a describes itself as a “a grassroots-generated, crowd-sourced, bottom-up call for real economic conservative and good governance reform in Congress.” The Contract from America website launched in September 1, 2009 and the final contract was revised until it was released in April, 2010. According to their website, the contract received support from individuals from groups including FreedomWorks, National Taxpayers' Union, Liberty Central, American Solutions, Regular Folks United, and various tea party groups. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s34" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[34]</a>“Founding Partners” listed on the Contract from America website include:<ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/freedomworks" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">FreedomWorks</a></li><li>National Taxpayers Union</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Tax_Reform" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Americans for Tax Reform</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Solutions_for_Winning_the_Future" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">American Solutions</a></li><li>FairTax</li><li>The Liberty Lab</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Regular_Folks_United" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Regular Folks United</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Let_Freedom_Ring" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Let Freedom Ring</a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Heartland Institute</a></li><li>The Next Right</li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/leadership-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Leadership Institute</a></li></ul><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Affiliations</h2><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Club_for_Growth" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Club for Growth —</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121115113122/http://www.clubforgrowth.org/news/?v=bbt&start=81&topic=35" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Endorsed Candidate (2010)</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s35" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[35]</a></li><li>House Freedom Caucus — <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/house-freedom-caucus-conservative-legislation-114593" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Founding Member</a>. The House Freedom Caucus <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/conservative-lawmakers-form-house-freedom-caucus/article/2559258" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">advocated many principles supported by the Tea Party movement</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s36" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[36]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s37" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[37]</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Caucus" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Tea Party Caucus</a> — <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/29/who-is-the-tea-party-caucus-in-the-house/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Member (2010</a>). <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mick-mulvaney#s38" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[38]</a></li></ul><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Social Media</h3><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li>Rep. Mick Mulvaney<a href="https://twitter.com/repmickmulvaney?lang=en" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> @RepMickMulvaney </a>on Twitter.</li><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Mick-Mulvaney-116439545455453/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mick Mulvaney (2016 Campaign Page) on Facebook.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/MulvaneySC5" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mick Mulvaney's Facebook Page </a>was taken down some time in 2016. Here is an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121212150215/https://www.facebook.com/MulvaneySC5" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">archive of the page in 2012</a>, and <a href="https://archive.fo/ifld5" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">another in 2015</a>.</li></ul><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Publications</h2>Mick Mulvaney has published or co-published a range of Op-Eds and article. See some samples below:<ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li>“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170211041036/https://mulvaney.house.gov/media-center/articles-op-eds/us-news-world-report-change-good-congress" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">US News & World Report: Change is Good for Congress</a>,” U.S. News & World Report, January 20, 2015.</li><li>Rep. Keith Ellison and Rep. Mick Mulvaney. ”<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-keith-ellison/make-pentagon-savings-par_b_2348065.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Make Pentagon Savings Part of Budget Negotiations</a>,” The Huffington Post, December 21, 2012.</li><li>“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170211040548/https://mulvaney.house.gov/media-center/articles-op-eds/op-ed-how-we-know-president-isnt-serious-about-averting-fiscal-cliff" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Op-Ed: How We Know the President Isn't Serious About Averting the Fiscal Cliff</a>,” December 10, 2012.</li><li>“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170211040618/https://mulvaney.house.gov/media-center/articles-op-eds/presidents-tax-math-doesnt-add" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The president's tax math doesn't add up</a>,” The Washington Examiner, November 4, 2011.</li><li>“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170211040704/http://www.politico.com/story/2011/09/agencies-stiffing-small-businesses-064152" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Agencies stiffing small-businesses</a>,” Politico, September 22, 2011.</li><li>“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170211040803/https://mulvaney.house.gov/media-center/articles-op-eds/cut-cap-and-balance" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Cut, Cap, and Balance</a>,” The State, July 20, 2011.</li><li>“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170211040927/http://www.rollcall.com/features/Freshman-Priorities_Policy-Briefing/policy_briefings/-203836-1.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mulvaney: GOP Will Write Serious Budget Plan</a>,” Roll Call, March 3, 2011.</li></ul><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Resources</h2><ol style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><a id="s1" name="s1" style="">“</a><a href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001182" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MULVANEY, Mick, (1967 - ),</a>” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170210035054/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001182" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Archived February 10, 2017</a>. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/Il74W" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/Il74W</a> </li><li><a id="s2" name="s2" style="">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170210035804/https://www.conservativereview.com/members/mick-mulvaney/biography/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Rep. Mick Mulvaney</a>,” Conservative Review. Archived February 10, 2017. Archive.is URL:<a href="https://archive.is/zxREj" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> https://archive.is/zxREj</a></li><li><a id="s3" name="s3" style="">“</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/17/mick-mulvaney-trump-office-management-budget" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump picks budget 'hawk' Mick Mulvaney to lead budget office</a>,” The Guardian, December 17, 2016. Archive.is URL:  <a href="https://archive.is/yZATW" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/yZATW</a></li><li><a id="s4" name="s4" style="">“</a><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/mick-mulvaney" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Representative Mick Mulvaney (R)</a>,” League of Conservation Voters. Archived February 10, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/9b1dR" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/9b1dR</a></li><li><a id="s5" name="s5" style="">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170211022609/https://mulvaney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-mulvaney-leads-letter-house-leadership-defund-planned-parenthood" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Rep. Mulvaney Leads Letter to House Leadership in Defund Planned Parenthood Effort</a>,”  United States Congressman Mick Mulvaney, July 29, 2015. Archived February 11, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/uYDJi" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/uYDJi</a></li><li><a id="s6" name="s6" style="">Ben Weyl. “</a><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/mick-mulvaney-budget-office-234061" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mick Mulvaney: What to watch</a>,” Politico, January 24, 2017. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170211023304/http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/mick-mulvaney-budget-office-234061" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Archived February 10, 2017</a>. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/mBAaE" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/mBAaE</a></li><li><a id="s7" name="s7" style="">Michael McAuliff. “</a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-mick-mulvaney-social-security_us_58877846e4b096b4a234a4a0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump’s Budget Nominee Still Thinks Social Security Is A Ponzi Scheme,</a>” The Huffington Post, January 30, 2017. Archived February 10, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/78NOz" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/78NOz</a></li><li><a id="s8" name="s8" style="">Michael D. Shear. “</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/us/politics/mick-mulvaney-office-management-budget-trump.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump Picks Mick Mulvaney, South Carolina Congressman, as Budget Director</a>,” The New York Times, December 16, 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/Ic6bN" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/Ic6bN</a></li><li><a id="s9" name="s9" style="">Doug Sachtleben. “</a><a href="http://www.clubforgrowth.org/federal-budget/club-for-growth-applauds-choice-of-mulvaney-to-head-omb/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">CLUB FOR GROWTH APPLAUDS CHOICE OF MULVANEY TO HEAD OMB,</a>” The Club for Growth, December 17, 2016. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170208050345/http://www.clubforgrowth.org/federal-budget/club-for-growth-applauds-choice-of-mulvaney-to-head-omb/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Archived February 7, 2017</a>. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/K32L3" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/K32L3</a></li><li><a id="s10" name="s10" style="">Russell Berman. “</a><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/mick-mulvaneys-unpaid-taxes-trump-budget-director/513578/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mick Mulvaney's Unpaid Taxes</a>,” The Atlantic, January 18, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/1Bxhh" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/1Bxhh</a></li><li><a id="s11" name="s11" style="">Associated Press. “</a><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mick-mulvaney-trumps-omb-pick-faces-senate-hearing/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mick Mulvaney, Trump's OMB pick, faces questions at Senate hearing</a>,” CBS News, January 24, 2017. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170208223117/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mick-mulvaney-trumps-omb-pick-faces-senate-hearing/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Archived February 8, 2017</a>. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/CnEgO" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/CnEgO</a></li><li><a id="s12" name="s12" style="">Daniel Marans. “</a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-budget-pick-mulvaney-climate-change_us_5887aabce4b0441a8f714ea9" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump Budget Director Pick Does Not Believe Climate Change Is A Major Risk,</a>” The Huffington Post, January 24, 2017.  Archived February 7, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/8S0Lh" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/8S0Lh</a></li><li><a id="s13" name="s13" style="">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100722061044/http://www.mulvaneyforcongress.com/issues-2" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Issues: Enough is Enough</a>,” Mick Mulvaney. Archived July 22, 2010. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/ezh9P" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/ezh9P</a></li><li><a id="s14" name="s14" style="">Pena Levy. “Trump's Pick for Budget Director Isn't Sure the Government Should Fund Scientific Research,” Mother Jones, December 19, 2016. </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170208053401/http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/trumps-pick-budget-director-isnt-sure-government-should-fund-scientific-research" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Archived February 7, 2017</a>. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/xrUGQ" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/xrUGQ</a></li><li><a id="s15" name="s15" style="">Jamie Self. “</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170211023902/http://www.heraldonline.com/latest-news/article12272801.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mulvaney in York Co.: Budget a bipartisan mess</a>,” The Herald, April 28, 2011. Archived February 11, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/yExXT" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/yExXT</a></li><li><a id="s16" name="s16" style="">“</a><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2016&type=C&cid=N00031412&newMem=N&recs=20" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mick Mulvaney</a>,” OpenSecrets.org. Data retrieved February 10, 2017.</li><li><a id="s17" name="s17" style="">Andrew V. Pestana. “</a><a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/01/24/Watch-live-Mick-Mulvaneys-budget-director-confirmation-hearing/3541485262894/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Watch live: Mick Mulvaney's budget director confirmation hearing</a>,” UPI, January 24, 2017. Archived February 10, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/H1Dxu" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/H1Dxu</a></li><li><a id="s18" name="s18" style="">Stephen Ohlemacher. “</a><a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/business/trump-budget-pick-mulvaney-faces-senate-hearing/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump budget pick says benefit programs must be changed,</a>“ The Seattle Times, January 24, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/Acvbm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/Acvbm</a></li><li><a id="s19" name="s19" style="">“</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=rep%20Mick%20Mulvaney" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Yesterday, John McCain joined the Democrats to attack Rep. Mick Mulvaney, Trump's pick to head his OMB. This is wrong. […]</a>” Facebook post by FreedomWorks, January 25 at 3:43 PM. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.</li><li><a id="s20" name="s20" style="">“</a><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/trump-mulvaney-john-birch-society" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump's Budget Director Pick Spoke at a John Birch Society Event</a>,” Mother Jones, December 19, 2016. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170208054143/http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/trump-mulvaney-john-birch-society" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Archived February 8, 2017</a>. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/9JE19" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/9JE19</a></li><li><a id="s21" name="s21" style="">“</a><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4745/text" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">H.R.4745 - Interim Consolidated Storage Act of 2016</a>,” Congress.gov, March 15, 2016. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/t36Yn" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/t36Yn</a></li><li><a id="s22" name="s22" style="">“</a><a href="http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article66953797.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mulvaney introduces bill to move nuclear waste</a>,” The State, March 18, 2016. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170211031954/http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article66953797.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Archived February 17, 2016</a>. Archive.is URL:<a href="https://archive.is/0Z4sA" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> https://archive.is/0Z4sA</a></li><li><a id="s23" name="s23" style="">(Press Release). “</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150708014940/http://pompeo.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=390758" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">54 Members of Congress Write House Leadership In Support of Concluding Crony System</a>,” U.S.Congressman Mike Pompeo, August 13, 2014. Archived July 8, 2015. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/Gx7cF" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/Gx7cF</a></li><li><a id="s24" name="s24" style="">“</a><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/5078" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Summary: H.R.5078 — 113th Congress (2013-2014)</a>,” Congress.gov. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170210034320/https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/5078" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Archived February 10, 2017</a>. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/g6rZh" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/g6rZh</a></li><li><a id="s25" name="s25" style="">“</a><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/5078/cosponsors" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Cosponsors: H.R.5078 — 113th Congress (2013-2014)</a>,” Congress.gov. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170210034615/https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/5078/cosponsors" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Archived February 10, 2017</a>. Archive.is URL:<a href="https://archive.is/yPHa4" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> https://archive.is/yPHa4</a></li><li><a id="s26" name="s26" style="">“</a><a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll320.xml" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 320</a>,” Clark.house.gov, May 12, 2011. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170208055035/http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll320.xml" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Archived February 8, 2017</a>. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/wOG42" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/wOG42</a></li><li><a id="s27" name="s27" style="">“</a><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/01231" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">H.R.1231 - Reversing President Obama's Offshore Moratorium Act</a>” Congress.gov. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170208055139/https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/01231" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Archived February 8, 2017</a>. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/coFI9" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/coFI9</a></li><li><a id="s28" name="s28" style="">“</a><a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll249.xml" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 249</a>,” Clerk.house.gov, April 7, 2011. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170208055714/http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll249.xml" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Archived February 8, 2017</a>. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/arPvo" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/arPvo</a></li><li><a id="s29" name="s29" style="">“</a><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/00910" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">H.R.910 - Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011: 112th Congress (2011-2012)</a>,” Congress.gov. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170208055449/https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/00910" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Archived February 8, 2017</a>. Archive.is URL:<a href="https://archive.is/4uAvA" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> https://archive.is/4uAvA</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170208060253/http://3l3p1249trelq9s5lhchgf11.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Mick_Mulvaney.pdf" id="s30" name="s30" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">“NoClimateTax.com Pledge” (PDF)</a>, Retried from NoClimateTax.com. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.</li><li><a id="s31" name="s31" style="">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170210023711/http://contractfromamerica.org/signers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">WE SUPPORT THE CONTRACT FROM AMERICA…</a>” Contract from America. Archived February 10, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/SQCFV" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/SQCFV</a></li><li><a id="s32" name="s32" style="">Bernie Becker. “</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15contract.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">A Revised Contract for America, Minus ‘With’ and Newt</a>,” The New York Times, April 14, 2010. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/Ioe5T" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/Ioe5T</a></li><li><a id="s33" name="s33" style="">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170210025312/http://contractfromamerica.org/the-contract-from-america/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">AMAZING THINGS THAT BRING POSITIVE RESULTS</a>,” Contract from America. Archived February 10, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/CYViB" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/CYViB</a></li><li><a id="s34" name="s34" style="">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170210023235/http://contractfromamerica.org/about/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">About Us</a>,” Contract from America. Archived February 10, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/0IWqo" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/0IWqo</a></li><li><a id="s35" name="s35" style="">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121115113122/http://www.clubforgrowth.org/news/?v=bbt&start=81&topic=35" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Club for Growth PAC Endorses David Schweikert in AZ-05</a>,” Club for Growth, September 7, 2010. Archived November 15, 2012. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/lqMUb" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/lqMUb</a> </li><li><a id="s36" name="s36" style="">Lauren French. “</a><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/house-freedom-caucus-conservative-legislation-114593" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">9 Republicans launch House Freedom Caucus,</a>” Politico, January 26, 2015. Archive.is URL:<a href="https://archive.is/GwRIm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> https://archive.is/GwRIm</a></li><li><a id="s37" name="s37" style="">Susan Ferrechio. “</a><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/conservative-lawmakers-form-house-freedom-caucus/article/2559258" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Conservative lawmakers form House Freedom Caucus</a>,” Washington Examiner, January 26, 2015. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/YmPeG" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/YmPeG</a></li><li><a id="s38" name="s38" style="">Shannon Travis. “</a><a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/29/who-is-the-tea-party-caucus-in-the-house/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Who is the Tea Party Caucus in the House?</a>” CNN, July 29, 2011. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170211030433/http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/29/who-is-the-tea-party-caucus-in-the-house/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Archived February 11, 2017</a>. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/FqFLt" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/FqFLt</a></li></ol><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Other Resources</h3><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li>“<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mick Mulvaney</a>,” Wikipedia.</li><li>“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100729181609/http://www.mulvaneyforcongress.com/about/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">About Mick</a>,” Mick Mulvaney. Archived July 29, 2010. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/PFTGO" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/PFTGO</a></li><li>“<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Mick_Mulvaney_Energy+Oil.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mick Mulvaney on Energy & Oil,</a>” OnThe Issues. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/SNSIT" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/SNSIT</a></li><li>Jeremy Herb. “<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-mulvaney-defense-budget-234077" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump's tea party budget chief on collision course with GOP hawks</a>,” Politico, January 23, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/NhU8y" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/NhU8y</a></li></ul></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above" style="padding: 1.5em 0px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 1.5em;"><div class="field-label" style="text-transform: uppercase; display: inline;">TAGS: </div><div class="field-items" style="display: inline;"><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/topics/mick-mulvaney" style="">Mick Mulvaney</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/913" style="">global warming</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/939" style="">climate change</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/6886" style="">climate change skeptic</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/3068" style="">climate change denier</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7705" style="">climate denialism</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2654" style="">denial industry</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7706" style="">denial database</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2560" style="">global warming blog</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2540" style="">desmogblog</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4046" style="">global warming research</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4047" style="">climate misinformation</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/5721" style="">smogger</a></div></div></div>

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