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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Jan 29, 2020

It will mean heretofore that when a president is impeached that one party can deny the other witnesses, and that will be the new normal that would be trials without witnesses.

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Jan 29, 2020

If we're going to sacrifice the national security of the country if we're going to withhold military aid. If we're going to bestow favors in U.S. resources to countries where the President has investments, is that what we want driving U.S…

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Jan 21, 2020

So that was -- those were the driving factors that he also mentioned to me in past that the corruption related to the DNC server? Absolutely, no question about that. But that's it, that's why we held up the money.

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Jan 20, 2020

We do that all the time with foreign policy. I have news for you. Get over it.

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Jan 20, 2020

Again, I was involved with the process by which the money was held up temporarily.

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Jan 19, 2020

The look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was - was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation, and that is absolutely appropriate.

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Nov 4, 2019

This is a corrupt place, I don't want to send them a bunch of money have them waist it, have them spend it, have them use it to line their own pockets.

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Oct 17, 2019

We're going to do the 46th G7 Summit on June 10th through 12th at the Trump National Doral Facility in Miami. Doral was by far and away, far and away the best physical facility for this meeting.

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Oct 16, 2019

I think the President has pretty much made it very clear since he's got here that he doesn't profit from being here, he has no interest in profit from being here.

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Oct 16, 2019

We're going to do the 46th G7 Summit on June 10 through June 12 at the Trump National Doral Facility in Miami. Doral was by far and away, far and away the best physical facility for this meeting.

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Oct 16, 2019

The look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation. That is absolutely appropriate.

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Oct 16, 2019

I have news for everybody. Get over. There is going to be political influence in foreign policy.

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Sep 9, 2019

Now, it is nearly impossible to fire a Federal worker. I know that because a lot of them work for me. But by simply saying to people we are going to take you outside the bubble, outside this liberal haven of Washington, DC, they quit. What…

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Aug 8, 2019

the recent push to relocate federal workers from the Washington, D.C. area is all about 'draining the swamp.'

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· May 20, 2019

I asked him, well, so should we compete with the Communist Government of China selling things below cost?

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· May 20, 2019

We shouldn't pass the DoD appropriations bill--because they get paid--until we have negotiated and passed.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Apr 29, 2019

He didn't explain a decision. He went out there justifying reckless behavior by the President. He wasn't serving as attorney general, he's serving the President's guidance counselor.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Apr 29, 2019

He was putting his fist on the scale for the American public. It was a lot more than a thumb.

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Apr 29, 2019

a benefit of moving federal agencies out of Washington, DC is that it causes federal employees to quit their jobs.

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Apr 2, 2019

What we've done is not to try and remove the safety net for folks who need it, but to try and figure out if there's folks who don't need it that need to be back in the workforce.

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