Mick Mulvaney
Mick Mulvaney | |
|---|---|
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| Acting White House Chief of Staff | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office January 2, 2019 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Deputy | Emma Doyle |
| Preceded by | John F. Kelly |
| Director of the Office of Management and Budget | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office February 16, 2017[a] | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Deputy | Russell Vought Margaret Weichert |
| Preceded by | Shaun Donovan |
| Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | |
In office November 25, 2017[b] – December 11, 2018 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Deputy | Leandra English Brian Johnson (acting) |
| Preceded by | Richard Cordray |
| Succeeded by | Kathleen Kraninger |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina's 5th district | |
In office January 3, 2011 – February 16, 2017 | |
| Preceded by | John Spratt |
| Succeeded by | Ralph Norman |
| Member of the South Carolina Senate from the 16th district | |
In office January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Chauncey K. Gregory |
| Succeeded by | Chauncey K. Gregory |
| Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from the 45th district | |
In office January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Eldridge Emory |
| Succeeded by | Debora Long |
| Personal details | |
| Born | John Michael Mulvaney (1967-07-21) July 21, 1967 Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Pamela West (m. 1998) |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Georgetown University (BS) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (JD) |
| *While Mulvaney has not resigned his position, Russell Vought serves as Acting OMB Director for the duration of Mulvaney's term as Acting White House Chief of Staff. | |
John Michael Mulvaney (/mʌlˈveɪni/; born July 21, 1967) is an American politician of the Republican Party who is serving in President Donald Trump's cabinet as Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as well as acting White House Chief of Staff.[1][2][3] Mulvaney also served as the acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from November 2017 to December 2018.
Mulvaney served in the South Carolina General Assembly from 2007 to 2011, first in the State House of Representatives and then the State Senate.[4] He served as a U.S. House Representative from 2011 to 2017.[5] He was nominated as OMB Director by President-elect Donald Trump in December 2016[6] and confirmed by Senate vote (51–49) on February 16, 2017.[7]
Mulvaney was known for his support for fiscal conservatism as a congressman. However, as OMB Director, he oversaw a dramatic expansion in the deficit and expressed support for Keynesian ideas which he had previously rejected. The deficit increases were a result of both spending increases and tax cuts, and were unusually high for a period of economic expansion.[8] In 2019, with regard to its potential mention in an upcoming State of the Union speech, Mulvaney said that "nobody cares" about the deficit.[9]
Contents
1 Early life
2 Early legal work
3 South Carolina legislature
3.1 State House
3.2 State Senate
4 U.S. House of Representatives
4.1 Elections
4.1.1 2010
4.1.2 2012
4.1.3 2014
4.1.4 2016
4.2 Tenure
4.2.1 Pay-to-play
4.2.2 Government shutdown
4.2.3 Regulations
4.2.4 Fiscal year 2014 budget
4.2.5 Presidential endorsements
4.2.6 Committee assignments
4.2.7 Caucus memberships
5 Director of the Office of Management and Budget
5.1 Nomination
5.2 Tenure
5.2.1 Manipulated unemployment numbers claim
5.2.2 Criticism of the Congressional Budget Office
5.2.3 Trump administration's budget proposals
5.2.4 Ethics waivers
5.2.5 Government shutdown
6 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
6.1 Appointment
6.2 Tenure
7 White House Chief of Staff
7.1 Appointment
8 Personal life
9 Notes
10 References
11 External links
Early life
Mulvaney was born in Alexandria, Virginia, to Michael "Mike", a real estate developer,[10] and Kathleen "Kathy" Mulvaney, a teacher.[11] He grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina.[12] He later moved to Indian Land, South Carolina.[13][14] His grandparents were originally from County Mayo, Ireland.[15] He attended Charlotte Catholic High School and then Georgetown University, where he majored in international economics, commerce and finance.[13] At Georgetown, he was an Honors Scholar of the School of Foreign Service, and ultimately graduated with honors in 1989.[14]
Mulvaney attended law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned a full scholarship to attend law school, where his focus was on antitrust law. He graduated with his J.D. degree in 1992.[16]
Early legal work
From 1992 to 1997, Mulvaney practiced law with the firm James, McElroy & Diehl. Mulvaney joined his family's homebuilding and real estate business. He participated in the Owners and Presidents Management Program at Harvard Business School. He was a minority shareholder and owner-operator in Salsarita's Fresh Cantina, a privately held regional restaurant chain.[17]
South Carolina legislature
State House
Mulvaney was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 2006.[18]
State Senate
In 2008 an unexpected retirement created a vacancy in the South Carolina Senate and he campaigned for and won that office in what was widely regarded to be the hardest fought legislative race in South Carolina that year.[19]
While in the State Senate, Mulvaney served on the Judiciary, Labor/Commerce/Industry, Medical Affairs, Agriculture/Natural Resources, and Corrections Committees. The Palmetto Family Council identified him as the Freshman Legislator of the Year in 2006 for his work on the South Carolina ultrasound bill.[20][21]
In 2010 he was named Legislator of the Year for his work in support of the State's Emergency Medical Services (EMS). He has received one of the few A+ ratings in the entire legislature from the South Carolina Club for Growth.[21]
U.S. House of Representatives
Mulvaney's official portrait
Elections
2010
Mulvaney, a GOP Young Gun, ran against Democratic incumbent John M. Spratt Jr. for South Carolina's 5th congressional district. The race was highlighted by Mitt Romney's Free and Strong America PAC's "Take Congress Back: 10 in '10" initiative as one of the top 10 House challenger races.[22] Mulvaney's involvement in the now defunct Edenmoor real estate development in Lancaster County, South Carolina became a campaign issue, with Mulvaney's opponents alleging that he misled the Lancaster County council and taxpayers to provide $30 million in public funding for the real estate development and that once the public funds had been approved, Mulvaney sold his interest in the development to a third party at a $7 million profit.[23][24] Mulvaney denied the allegations and said that the project's failure was due to Democratic economic policies.[23] He defeated Spratt, who had held the seat since 1983, with 55% of the vote.[25]
Mulvaney's campaign against Spratt was aided by a 501(c)(4) organization named the Commission on Hope, Growth, and Opportunity. The group, which was established by anonymous donors and run by lobbyist Scott W. Reed, was accused by the watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington of violating federal campaign finance laws and disclosing false information to the Internal Revenue Service.[26]
2012
Mulvaney speaking at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C.
He won re-election to a second term by defeating Democrat Joyce Knott 56%–44%.[27][28]
2014
He won re-election to a third term by defeating Democrat Tom Adams, a Fort Mill Town Council[29] member, 59%–41%.[30]
Mulvaney cofounded the bipartisan Blockchain Caucus, "meant to help congressmen stay up to speed on cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies", and develop policies that advance them.[31]
2016
Mulvaney faced Ray Craig in the Republican primary and defeated him 78–22%.[32] Mulvaney was re-elected to a fourth term, winning over 59% of the vote.[33]
Tenure
During his time in the U.S. House, Mulvaney aligned himself with the Tea Party movement.[34][35] He was a founding member of the Freedom Caucus.[36]
He opposed gun control initiatives and the Affordable Care Act.[37][38][39]
Pay-to-play
In April 2018, Mulvaney told a room of banking industry executives and lobbyists that as a Congressman he refused to take meetings with lobbyists unless they contributed to his congressional campaigns.[40] He said, "If you are a lobbyist who never gave us money, I did not talk to you. If you are a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you."[40] At the top of the hierarchy, he added, were his constituents. “If you came from back home and sat in my lobby, I talked to you without exception, regardless of the financial contributions,” said Mr. Mulvaney.[40]
Government shutdown
According to the New York Times, Mulvaney took "a hard line on spending during President Obama’s term, vowing not to raise the nation’s debt limit and embracing the term 'Shutdown Caucus' because of his willingness to shut the government down instead."[38] In 2015, Mulvaney voted against a government-funding resolution, which would have prevented a government shutdown, in part because it included funding for Planned Parenthood.[41] Explaining his vote, Mulvaney said, "This is not about women's health. It’s about trafficking in pieces of dead children."[41] After his appointment as head of the OMB in 2017, he reiterated his conditional position of support for a shutdown.[42]
Regulations
Mulvaney supported the Regulatory Improvement Act of 2015, which would have "[created] a commission tasked with eliminating and revising outdated and redundant federal regulations."[43][44]
Fiscal year 2014 budget
On December 10, 2013, Republican Representative Paul Ryan and Democratic Senator Patty Murray announced that they had negotiated the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, a proposed two-year budget deal.[45][46] The budget deal capped the federal government's spending for Fiscal Year 2014 at $1.012 trillion and for Fiscal Year 2015 at $1.014.[47]
The proposed deal eliminated some of the spending cuts required by the sequester by $45 billion of the cuts scheduled to happen in January and $18 billion of the cuts scheduled to happen in 2015.[47] This did not decrease federal spending; instead, by reducing the amount of spending cuts the government was going to be forced to make by the sequester, it actually increased government spending by $45 billion and $18 billion over what would have been spent had the sequester remained in place. Some Republicans wanted Speaker John Boehner to pursue a temporary measure that would cover the rest of Fiscal Year 2014 at the level set by the sequester – $967 billion, rather than pass this budget deal, which would have $45 billion in additional spending.[48]
The deal was designed to make up for this increase in spending by raising airline fees and changing the pension contribution requirements of new federal workers.[45] According to The Hill, Mulvaney spearheaded opposition to the bill. He did not blame Ryan for the budget deal, instead saying that the problem was that too few conservatives had been elected to Congress to pass a budget with a greater focus on debt reduction.[48] Mulvaney said that he expected the budget deal to pass because "it was designed to get the support of defense hawks and appropriators and Democrats", not conservatives.[45]
On April 9, 2014, Mulvaney offered a proposal based on the Obama proposal as a substitute amendment in order to force a vote on the President's budget request. The President's proposal failed in a vote of 2–413, although Democrats were urged by their leadership to vote against this "political stunt."[49]
Presidential endorsements
Mulvaney speaking at a campaign event for Senator Rand Paul in Spartanburg, South Carolina in September 2015.
In September 2015, Mulvaney endorsed Kentucky Senator Rand Paul in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries.[50]
Committee assignments
- Committee on Financial Services
Committee on Small Business
- Subcommittee on Healthcare and Technology
- Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access
Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce (Chairman)
Caucus memberships
- Republican Study Committee
Freedom Caucus[51]
- Tea Party Caucus
Congressional Constitution Caucus[52]
- Congressional Blockchain Caucus[53]
Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Nomination
On December 16, 2016, Mulvaney was announced as President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.[54]
Mulvaney's nomination as Director-designate was reviewed in hearings held by the members of the United States Senate Committee on the Budget and the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs then presented to the full Senate for a vote.
In his statement to the Senate Budget Committee, Mulvaney admitted that he had failed to pay $15,000 in payroll taxes from 2000-04 for a nanny he had hired to care for his triplets. Mulvaney said he did not pay the taxes because he viewed the woman as a babysitter rather than as a household employee. After filling out a questionnaire from the Trump transition team, he realized the lapse and began the process of paying back taxes and fees. Senate Democrats noted that Republicans had previously insisted that past Democratic nominees' failure to pay taxes for their household employees was disqualifying, including former Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle in 2009.[55][56]
On February 16, 2017, the Senate confirmed Mulvaney, 51–49.[7][57]
Tenure
During his tenure as OMB Director, Mulvaney sought to influence President Donald Trump to cut Social Security and Medicare.[10] When he introduced himself to Gary Cohn, who was then Trump's chief economic advisor, Mulvaney said, "Hi, I'm a right-wing nutjob."[10] While Mulvaney was known for his professed support for fiscal conservatism as a congressman, under Mulvaney's tenure as OMB Director there was a dramatic expansion in the deficit as a result of both spending increases and tax cuts.[8] The deficits were unusually high for a period of economic expansion.[8]
Manipulated unemployment numbers claim
In March 2017, Mulvaney stated that he believed that "the Obama administration was manipulating the numbers, in terms of the number of people in the workforce, to make the unemployment rate — that percentage rate — look smaller than it actually was," and that "[w]hat you should really look at is the number of jobs created."[58] There is no evidence that jobs numbers under the Obama administration were manipulated.[58][59][60]FiveThirtyEight's Ben Casselman noted that "manipulating the jobs figures... would mean not just messing with one number but rather interfering with an entire ecosystem of statistics" and "would require a conspiracy theory of massive proportions, involving hundreds if not thousands of people."[59]
Criticism of the Congressional Budget Office
In March 2017, Mulvaney stated that the Congressional Budget Office was not capable of assessing the American Health Care Act, stating that "[i]f the CBO was right about Obamacare to begin with, there'd be 8 million more people on Obamacare today than there actually are."[61] According to FactCheck.Org, "[t]he CBO actually nailed the overall impact of the law on the uninsured pretty closely...It’s true (as Trump administration officials have repeatedly pointed out) that CBO greatly overestimated the number who would get government-subsidized coverage through the new insurance exchanges. But at the same time, CBO underestimated the number who would get coverage through expanding Medicaid. And whatever the failings of CBO’s predictions, they were closer to the mark than those of the Obama administration and some other prominent forecasters."[62]PolitiFact noted that "the initial CBO analysis of the Affordable Care Act did forecast that more people would participate in health care exchanges than actually did, but the CBO has revised those estimates. Moreover, independent analyses, as well as experts agree that the CBO offers some of the best estimates given the information available at the time."[63]
In May 2017, Mulvaney was critical of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) after it estimated the version of the American Health Care Act passed by the house in May 2017 would result in 23 million fewer people with health insurance. Mulvaney said that the CBO's assessment was "absurd" and that "the days of relying on some nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to do that work for us has probably come and gone."[64]
Trump administration's budget proposals
While promoting the Trump administration's budget proposal in March 2017, Mulvaney stated that, as to taxpayers, the government was "not gonna ask you for your hard-earned money, anymore… unless we can guarantee to you that that money is actually being used in a proper function."[65] For instance, Mulvaney justified cuts to block grants that go towards spending on Meals on Wheels because it was "just not showing any results."[66][67] Others disagreed with Mulvaney's statement, citing research that has "found home-delivered meal programs to significantly improve diet quality, increase nutrient intakes, and reduce food insecurity and nutritional risk among participants. Other beneficial outcomes include increased socialization opportunities, improvement in dietary adherence, and higher quality of life."[68][66]
On May 22, 2017, Mulvaney presented President Trump's $4.1 trillion 2018 United States federal budget. The budget included cuts to the United States Department of State, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the social safety net and increases in funding for defense spending and paid family leave. The "America First" budget included a 10.6% decrease in domestic program spending and a 10% increase in military spending, in addition to $1.6 billion for a border wall.[69] The budget would remove $272 billion from welfare programs, including $272 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps.[69] The budget would also remove $800 billion from Medicaid, and $72 billion from Social Security disability benefits, while removing nothing from Social Security retirement or Medicare benefits.[69] Mulvaney projected the budget will not add to the federal deficit because future tax cuts will lead to 3% GDP growth.[69] He described the budget as "the first time in a long time that an administration has written a budget through the eyes of the people who are actually paying the taxes."[70]
In December 2017, the President signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The United States Congress Joint Committee on Taxation forecasted that with dynamic scoring the $1.5 trillion reduction in revenues will increase the federal deficit by $1 trillion.[71] Regulatory implementation of the tax cuts have been delayed by a dispute between Mulvaney and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin regarding the involvement of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.[72]
In February 2018, Mulvaney released the President's $4.4 trillion 2019 United States federal budget, which would add $984 billion to the federal deficit that year, and $7 trillion over the next 10 years.[73] Later that month, the President signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, which allowed yearly federal deficits to reach $1 trillion.[74] In March 2018, Congress ultimately passed the $1.3 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, which funded the government's operations until the end of the fiscal year in September.[75]
Ethics waivers
On April 28, 2017, Walter Shaub, the Director of the United States Office of Government Ethics issued a data request to see the ethics waivers given to ex-lobbyists in the executive branch, which Mulvaney then refused.[76] On May 22, Shaub sent Mulvaney, in addition to every federal ethics officer, every inspector general, and the six members of Congress responsible for government oversight, a ten-page response reasserting his legal authority to see the ethics waivers.[76]
Government shutdown
In a press briefing on May 2, 2017, Mulvaney said that a "good shutdown" of the federal government might be necessary in September. He defined such a situation as one "that fixes Washington, D.C. permanently."[42] In the same conference call to reporters, Mulvaney defended a funding package which contained no funds for President Trump's posed border wall. The call became infamous after being plagued with technical problems and interruptions.[77]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Appointment
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski had encouraged the President to replace Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Richard Cordray.[78] As a congressman, Mulvaney had been a strong critic of the CFPB, calling it a "sick, sad" joke and cosponsoring legislation for its elimination.[79] Mulvaney's congressional campaigns had accepted nearly $63,000 in donations from payday lenders.[78]
President Trump appointed Mulvaney to serve as Acting Director of the CFPB under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (FVRA), which allows for the president to appoint an interim replacement without Senate confirmation. However, a dispute arose over whether Mulvaney can be so-named under the FVRA or whether a provision of the Dodd-Frank Act controls, which would make the deputy director, Leandra English, acting director of the CFPB instead. This led to a court battle, English v. Trump. On November 28, 2017, U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly denied English's motion for a preliminary injunction and allowed Mulvaney to begin serving as CFPB Acting Director.[80]
Tenure
Mulvaney immediately stopped hiring at the CFPB, stopped collecting fines, suspended rulemaking, and ordered all active investigations reviewed.[81] Mulvaney also sharply reduced agency personnel's access to bank data, arguing that it posed a security risk.[40] On January 18, 2018, Mulvaney submitted a quarterly budget request for the CFPB to the Federal Reserve for $0.[82][83]
In January 2018, Mulvaney canceled an investigation into a South Carolina payday lender that had previously donated to his congressional campaigns.[78] He also dropped a lawsuit the CFPB was pursuing against an online lender the bureau had found was charging 950% interest.[84] Mulvaney suspended a short-term payday loan regulation.[85] In addition to payday lenders, Mulvaney also scaled back efforts to go after auto lenders and others accused of preying on vulnerable consumers.[40] By April 2018, more than four months after taking charge of the CFPB, Mulvaney had not undertaken a single enforcement action against finance companies; the previous CFPB director, Richard Cordray, averaged two to four enforcement actions per month.[85] Mulvaney accepted nearly $63,000 in donations by payday lenders while he was a congressman; in April 2018, he said that he would never take a meeting with lobbyists unless they contributed to his campaigns.[40]
In April 2018, Mulvaney submitted the CFPB's annual report to Congress, in which he recommended the bureau's funding should be made to require congressional appropriations, that its future rulemaking should require legislative approval, and that he, the director, should be made removable without cause by the President.[86]
The Community Financial Services Association of America, a trade association representing the payday lending industry, praised Mulvaney's approach, calling it "relatively passive".[78]
In April 2018, it was reported that Mulvaney had given some of his political appointees at the CFPB raises.[87] Mulvaney hired at least eight appointees after he took over the agency and created positions for some the appointees which did not exist under Cordray's tenure at the CFPB.[87]
In April 2018, Mulvaney said that he would shut down public access to the CFPB's online database of consumer complaints where consumers could post complaints and the CFPB used to guide its investigations.[40] Mulvaney said, "I don’t see anything in here that says I have to run a Yelp for financial services sponsored by the federal government."[40] As the database was mandated by law, it could not be shut down, only closed to the public.[88] A review of Mulvaney's campaign contributions as a congressman showed that 8 of the 10 firms with the most complaints about them had contributed to Mulvaney's campaigns.[88]
In April 2018, Mulvaney announced a $1 billion fine against Wells Fargo for fraudulent practices. The case against Wells Fargo started prior to Mulvaney's tenure, and there were reports that Mulvaney considered dropping the case. Amid this reporting, Trump warned that the bank would be fined.[89]
In May 2018, The New York Times reported that Mulvaney worked two to three days a week at the CFPB, a few hours at a time.[89]
In August 2018, it was reported that Mulvaney was considering rolling back oversight of military lenders. The Military Lending Act was devised to protect military service members and their families from financial fraud, predatory loans and credit card gouging.[90]
White House Chief of Staff
Appointment
On December 14, 2018, Donald Trump named Mulvaney as his acting White House Chief of Staff beginning with the new year.[91] Prior to Trump's election, Mulvaney had characterized the future president as a "terrible human being",[92][93] said he would be disqualified from office in an "ordinary universe",[94] and described Trump's views on a wall on the US-Mexico border as "absurd and almost childish."[95]
Personal life
In 1998, Mulvaney married Pamela West whom he had met in line at a bookstore while he was a law student. The couple have triplets, (born in 2000) Finn, James and Caroline.[15][11] He is a Roman Catholic.[96]
Mick Mulvaney's brother Ted Mulvaney (Theodore) is portfolio manager for Braeburn Capital, the investment arm of tech giant Apple Inc.[97][98]
Notes
^ Substituted by Russell Vought as Acting Director since January 2, 2019.
^ Disputed with Leandra English until November 28.
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113th | Senate: L. Graham • T. Scott | House: J. Clyburn • J. Wilson • M. Sanford (from May 2013) • J. Duncan • T. Gowdy • M. Mulvaney • T. Rice |
114th | Senate: L. Graham • T. Scott | House: J. Clyburn • J. Wilson • M. Sanford • J. Duncan • T. Gowdy • M. Mulvaney • T. Rice |
115th | Senate: L. Graham • T. Scott | House: J. Clyburn • J. Wilson • M. Sanford • J. Duncan • T. Gowdy • M. Mulvaney (until Feb. 2017) • T. Rice • R. Norman (from Jun. 2017) |
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