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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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May 23, 2017

It is an honor and a privilege to be here on behalf of the Trump administration.

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May 23, 2017

We need to have an honest conversation with the American public about where that is and where we are headed.

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May 23, 2017

When we print money to pay off debts, what it essentially does is make the existing dollars in your pocket work less.

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May 23, 2017

I think that growth cures so many ills.

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May 23, 2017

Success should be somebody who was employed, became unemployed, used the benefits available to him or her... as the bridge to get to the next job.

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May 23, 2017

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.

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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

I believe in the social safety net. I really do.

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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

Great countries are not destroyed from without; they rot from within.

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May 23, 2017

I have told this story many times, I actually sat across the desk from him in the Oval Office with my list of mandatory reforms.

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May 23, 2017

We never said that Meals on Wheels was ineffective.

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May 23, 2017

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.

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May 23, 2017

The title could have been the taxpayer first budget.

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May 23, 2017

If you confiscated the net worth of the richest 400 people in America, all you would do is cover the Federal budget deficit for about 4 years.

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May 23, 2017

Policies will drive everything, yes, sir.

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

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May 23, 2017

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

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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 4, 2017

This stuff is going up now, why, because the president wants to make this country safe.

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May 4, 2017

We are building this now. There is money in this deal to build several hundreds of millions of dollars of this to replace this.

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May 4, 2017

This doesn't stop drugs and it doesn't stop criminals from crossing the border. In fact, it doesn't stop hardly anything from crossing the border.

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May 3, 2017

We are building this now. There is money in this deal to build several hundreds of millions of dollars of this, to replace this.

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May 2, 2017

The president's priority was to secure the southern border and that's what this does.

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