Mick Mulvaney Quotes
If we don’t take defense spending seriously, it undermines our credibility on other spending issues
Most Republicans at the time would argue for government spending reductions except for defense spending for which they wanted an increase in most cases despite huge waste and abuse in the Department of Defense. (See {615006} for just one example). Mulvaney, a new congressman with Tea Party backing, pointed out the hypocrisy of the this Republican position over the last decades, but this had been a central part of the Ronald Reagan platform.
Mick Mulvaney, U. S. Congressman (Republican, SC), Interview, Politico, December 2012
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After the invasion phase of the Iraq War, to shore up the economy $12 billion of cash was printed up and flown to Iraq to the U. S. Governor in charge, Paul Bremer. He then was to properly allocate it to develop the economy and pay for reconstruction services. However, apparently there were no records kept and no one could determine who the money went to and for what purpose. It was the largest mismanagement and disappearance of cash in world history.
Attacking opponent Ronald Reagan's campaign promises:. Anderson lost the election. Reagan made good on the last two of the three promises, but ran up the largest deficits in American history.
In the non-defense side of the budget a very large proportion of the budget is for entitlements like Social Security and Mediacre which are obligations that must be paid. The remainder, the smaller part is everything else--funding the cabinet departments, all the medical and sdcientific research, all the federal aid to public dchools and police departments, all the welfare, foodstamp and other programs for the poor, the costs of the Federal COurt System, the White House, the Congress, the State Department, foreign aid, Homeland security, weatehr forcasting, all the agricultural programs, and viirtually everything the governmetn does. In 2017 President Donals Trump submitted a budget to COngress that increased defense spending by a fulll 10 percent, and gave a hugh tax cut for the wealthy and the corporations. To balance the budget, he propsoed eliminateing man of the existing progrms like "Meals on Wheels" which brings at least 1 hot meal a day to homebound poor eldertly people, and a host of other critical programs. He had no previous experience with a government budget which was thoudands of times larger and more complex than any budget he had ever seen. So many in Congress, in both partiesd, were very critical of the budget and Congress then started to create its own buget. This quote expressed the heart of the problem.
- Born: July 21, 1967
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Politician
John Michael "Mick" Mulvaney is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 5th congressional district since 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party. Mulvaney previously served as a member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 16th district (Lancaster and York Counties), from 2009 to 2011. He is the first Republican to represent South Carolina's 5th district since 1883. He was apponted by Donald Trump to be the Director of the Office of Managment and Budget.
