Posted on 02/16/2017 11:17:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Rep. Mick Mulvaney to lead the Office of Management and Budget under President Donald Trump, placing the South Carolina Republican in a key White House role that holds significant sway over the administration's spending priorities.
Mulvaney is one of the founding members of the House Freedom Caucus, the hard-line group of some 40 congressmen who have yanked the GOP conference in the chamber to the right and were instrumental in forcing out former House Speaker John Boehner in 2015.
The Senate approved Mulvaney's nomination mostly along party lines, 51 to 49, with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., casting the decisive vote in Mulvaney's favor.
One Republican, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, broke with the GOP to vote against Mulvaney.
McCain, in announcing his decision to split with his colleagues on Wednesday night, said Mulvaney's history of prioritizing the shrinking of the federal government and spending – including on the military – made it impossible to support him.
"It is with great reluctance that I come to the floor of the Senate to rise in opposition to the nomination of Congressman Mick Mulvaney," McCain, a security hawk and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on the floor Wednesday night. "Unfortunately, Congressman Mulvaney has spent his last six years in the House of Representatives pitting the national debt against our military."
McCain was similarly critical of Mulvaney during a confirmation hearing last month, calling his House colleague "detached from the reality of what these cuts have meant to military service members" and adding that he was concerned about Mulvaney's "support for reckless budget strategies that led to a government shutdown."
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McCain is a weasel!
So Golden Showers doesn’t like Mulvaney-/
SCOTT PRUIT for EPA is the only one left who matters, and the third most important after Sessions and Tillerson. Susan Collins is opposed. Will he get through?
Yes, two dems are supporting Pruit.
If I were Mulvaney, I’d keep a list of those who voted against me and would reciprocate in kind....pathetic.!!!
RE: Pissing off both Dems and McCain. Now that’s a win win.
I had to enjoy an extra sip of a good California Red Wine after reading your reply above.
Horseshoes and hand greandes. Both count.
Along with any confirmation of a Trump cabinet member even if Pence has to cast the winning vote.
Hooray!
Another cabinet nominee confirmed.
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