Mick Mulvaney

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Budget Director Mick Mulvaney acknowledged that the 2019 budget plan leaves big deficits, but he said this would have been even worse without some $3 trillion in cuts over the next decade that President Trump suggested. Mr. Mulvaney said that he warned Congress last year that both parties need to reduce their spending. testifies before the Senate Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, on President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2019 budget proposal. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Thursday, July 20, 2017, file photo, Budget Director Mick Mulvaney gestures as he speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington. The White House is stepping up demands that the Senate resume efforts to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's health care law. Asked if no other legislative business should be taken up until the Senate acts again on health care, Mulvaney on Sunday, July 30, responded "yes" and suggested the Senate continue working through August if necessary. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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FILE - In this March 16, 2017, file photo, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney speaks at the White House, in Washington. Mulvaney says that Democratic negotiators on a massive spending bill need to agree to funding top priorities of President Donald Trump, such as a down payment on a border wall and hiring of additional immigration agents. Mulvaney told The Associated Press on April 20, that “elections have consequences” and that “we want wall funding” as part of the catchall spending bill, which lawmakers hope to unveil next week. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

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FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2017 file photo, Budget Director-designate Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Budget Committee. The Republican-controlled Senate is poised to confirm Mulvaney on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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In this Jan. 24, 2017 file photo, Budget Director-designate Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Budget Committee. Mulvaney has cleared a routine Senate hurdle. But at least two senior Republicans have voiced doubts about supporting him in a Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, confirmation vote. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo. listens at right as the committee's ranking Member, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, during the committee's confirmation hearing for Budget Director-designate Rep. Mick Mulvaney's, R-S.C. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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U. S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., listens to a question at a town hall sponsored by the Rock Hill branch of the NAACP on Thursday, May 22, 2014, in Rock Hill, S.C. Mulvaney has done about 50 town halls during his four years in office and not all of them have been in front of friendly crowds. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

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U. S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., listens to a question at a town hall sponsored by the Rock Hill branch of the NAACP on Thursday, May 22, 2014, in Rock Hill, S.C. Mulvaney has done about 50 town halls during his four years in office and not all of them have been in front of friendly crowds. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

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**FILE** Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 11, 2011, to discuss the budget. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

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"A lot of us who went into battle turned around and no one was behind us," said Rep. Mick Mulvaney, South Carolina Republican, in reference to House Republicans' revolt before Christmas against the Senate-passed deal to extend the payroll-tax cut. The showdown turned into a political debacle for the GOP. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Republicans (from left) Rep. Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia leave a Wednesday news conference where they announced a strengthened revival of the "YouCut" plan.