Mick Mulvaney

We were fairly disappointed in the GDP numbers in the fourth quarter.

We absolutely anticipate that the deepwater ports be part of the infrastructure bill.

I believe that it is a promise that the President has already started to keep.

We actually saw increases in economic growth, improvements in economic growth, before the tax bill was even actually fleshed out, let alone passed.

The fiscal year 2019 budget process will give special consideration to bold reform or reorganization proposals that have the potential to dramatically improve effectiveness and efficiency of Government operations.

That seems to me to be a good way to get OSHA out of the business of playing 'got you' with 130 million workers at eight million work sites by creating an environment in most of the sites of cooperatively working together to create safe…

The opportunity with expanding the Voluntary Protection Program, other compliance assistance programs that expand the knowledge about compliance with OSHA's regulations, as well as just improving safety and health in the workplace is an…

Yet this budget proposal has forced us to ask what America's role in the world is and what kind of nation we seek to be.

Do we really want to slash the State Department and the U.S.A.I.D. at such a perilous moment?

The idea that putting Americans 'first' requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded.

Obamacare is a disaster, delivering high costs, few options, and broken promises.

The day of the CBO has come and gone.

If we could tax our way to growth and if we could tax our way to prosperity, every government in the world would have done it a long time ago.

I think one of the knocks against your party is that you don't believe in national defense.

We never said that Meals on Wheels was ineffective.

We refuse to accept it as well, Congressman, as you mentioned. We think that if that is where you are, then don't accept it.

Yeah, I think folks understand that a function, a proper and appropriate function of the government is to defend the Nation.

There is no reduction in that program.

I am just as interested and you are I believe, in waste at the Department of Defense.

I don't believe it is possible. In fact, I know it is not possible to balance the budget solely using the discretionary portion of the budget.

At some point in the very near future, we expect to be paying more money for debt than we do for defense.

I think there is a disconnect between the American people and the government when we don't lay out a path to balance.

I have three 17-year-olds. Okay? They are not even out of school yet and they owe this government $60,000 each.

A healthy American economy is very, very different than what you have seen for the last 10 years.

We want to measure compassion, true compassion, by the number of people we help to get off of those programs.