Mick Mulvaney: “It is extraordinarily difficult to reduce the size of a Federal bureaucracy.”

No, never. Nor should they. That's an issue that was already litigated during the election. Voters knew the President could have given his tax returns, they knew that he didn't and they elected him anyway.

“So that will be fascinating to see how it shakes out at the Supreme Court,” he told Stateline.

I think the President probably should be coming to McCarthy's aid simply because the President is already associated with McCarthy, regardless what the President does in the next 24 or 48 hours.

That being said, there’ve been two areas where the states have almost always been entirely sovereign: That’s on booze and gambling.