Mick Mulvaney: “It was actually then-Senator Barack Obama in 2008 who said that this…”

On the recordJuly 28, 2014

It was actually then-Senator Barack Obama in 2008 who said that this was corporate welfare that needed to be cut back.

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Mulvaney references Obama's past criticism of the Export-Import Bank as corporate welfare.

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Mick Mulvaney: “It was actually then-Senator Barack Obama in 2008 who said that this was corporate welfare that needed to be cut back.”