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Mick Mulvaney

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Mick Mulvaney is a Republican politician from South Carolina who served as the White House Chief of Staff under President Donald Trump from January 2019 to March 2020. Prior to this role, he was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing South Carolina's 5th congressional district from 2010 to 2017. During his time in Congress, Mulvaney was known for his fiscal conservatism and was a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus, which advocates for limited government and reduced federal spending. He also served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from February 2017 to January 2019, where he focused on budgetary reforms and government efficiency.

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Jan 23, 2018

Graham-Cassidy goes to the very heart of that while providing importantly the funding necessary for States to do that.

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Jan 23, 2018

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

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Jan 23, 2018

Our budget assumes a DACA deal; it assumes an immigration agreement is reached.

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Dec 12, 2017

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.

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Dec 4, 2017

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…

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Dec 4, 2017

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…

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Jun 12, 2017

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

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Jun 12, 2017

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.

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Jun 12, 2017

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

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Jun 7, 2017

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

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Jun 6, 2017

the day of the CBO has come and gone.

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May 23, 2017

I don't believe that people are willing to pay for as much government as they have.

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May 23, 2017

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

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May 23, 2017

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.

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May 23, 2017

Not only that, we need to do it to save the country.

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May 23, 2017

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

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May 23, 2017

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

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May 23, 2017

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

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May 23, 2017

We built an American economy that was the envy of the entire world and can be again...

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May 23, 2017

I think you are absolutely doing the right thing, trying to explain to people what that real world looks like.

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May 23, 2017

There is no reduction in that program.

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May 23, 2017

I believe that it is very real, yes, sir.

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May 23, 2017

For some reason this body--and I count myself amongst you because I was one of you until recently--we just don't get it.

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May 23, 2017

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

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May 23, 2017

I just find it ludicrous that Democrats in this hearing has suggested that President Trump has betrayed his voters.

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