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Trump taps conservative SC Rep. Mulvaney as budget chief
Associated Press ^ | Dec 16, 2016 9:35 PM EST | Andrew Taylor

Posted on 12/16/2016 7:13:08 PM PST by Olog-hai

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped South Carolina GOP Rep. Mick Mulvaney as his budget director, naming a tough-on-spending conservative and an advocate of balancing the federal budget to the important post.

An official on Trump’s transition team, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter before it is officially announced, confirmed Trump’s pick Friday evening.

Mulvaney, 49, was elected in the 2010 tea party wave and is a founder of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, whose members pushed former Speaker John Boehner from power and have caused heartburn for current Speaker Paul Ryan. He is one of the more hard-charging members among House conservatives. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 114th; balancedbudget; freedomcaucus; mulvaney; omb; teaparty; trump; trumpbudget; trumpcabinet; trumptransition
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To: Baseballguy

That makes the of us. My only problem with Mick is he backed Bonehead for speaker.


21 posted on 12/17/2016 2:24:28 AM PST by neal1960 (D m cr ts S ck. Would you like to buy a vowel?)
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To: jobim

Should be good


22 posted on 12/17/2016 3:28:47 AM PST by rb22982
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To: Olog-hai

My congressman Mick Mulvaney.


23 posted on 12/17/2016 4:49:52 AM PST by RipSawyer
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To: rb22982

Mine too!


24 posted on 12/17/2016 4:50:49 AM PST by RipSawyer
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To: jobim

I don’t expect much, but I’m hoping the new POTUS has a mad-on for baseline budgeting...


25 posted on 12/17/2016 4:54:44 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: AndyJackson

I agree that the government wastes money like Michael Moore at an all you can eat buffet but things really could be far more efficient without even approaching the efficiency of private industry. One novel approach would be to require government workeers to actually WORK!


26 posted on 12/17/2016 4:57:39 AM PST by RipSawyer
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To: RipSawyer
One novel approach would be to require government workeers to actually WORK!

Doing what? You don't want government workers working at doing what they are assigned to do. Because of the incompetence of the political management most of what people do is manage process rather than outcome. If you don't know what you want done, any process will do it, and the inside the beltway types argue endlessly over how to adjust the process to ensure that the process can't be criticized by the voters.

Noting useful gets done.

This is why Trump is different. It's like the Wollman Ice Skating Rink story. Do you want a working ice-skating rink or do you want a process to ensure that each step of the process is executed according to the process regardless of what it is you want? Inside the Beltway we want not justice but procedural justice.

The taxpayer cannot afford it.

27 posted on 12/17/2016 5:41:32 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Olog-hai

Sounds like this is a guy who should have Graham’s spot in the Senate.


28 posted on 12/17/2016 5:44:44 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Olog-hai

Hell yeah!! It’s on.


29 posted on 12/17/2016 7:09:20 AM PST by mommab2003 (Stop these White House Chefs!!!)
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To: mewzilla
baseline budgeting..

Sure. You want baseline budgeting, the inside the beltway process can do baseline budgeting. It is a meaningless concept, just another buzzword in the corporate buzzword bingo that floats around. You keep making the mistake of thinking that you will fix D.C. by finding the unjustified things and stopping them. It is all justified. It's just a morass where what is justified doesn't lead to anything that the taxpayers need.

You have to figure out what you want to do, set priorities, which means that there is a first thing you want to do and you will focus on doing that first before you spend resources on what will be the priority when your priority is accomplished.

The problem is that D.C. has not actually had anyone manage the government since Eisenhower.

30 posted on 12/17/2016 8:02:26 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

I agree with you totally. I should have written that differently but I grew up on the farm and that was what I had in mind when I wrote “actually work”. If the job was get the corn out of the field and into the crib you got it done, you didn’t waste time on a thousand distractions and you didn’t do things that were counter productive and try to convince Pop that your way was better. I am well aware that we are better off when the average government hire stays home than when he is “on the job”. I really hope that Trump can find a way to cut very deeply into the ranks of government “workers”.


31 posted on 12/18/2016 4:48:16 AM PST by RipSawyer
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