The White House budget director recently recalled a hierarchy of access at his old congressional office. It appears he’s imported that model into the West Wing.
Mick Mulvaney, Donald Trump’s top budget and financial consumer watchdog, had a hierarchy of access in his former congressional office: first were constituents, then lobbyists who’d donated to his campaign, and then, at the bottom, lobbyists who hadn’t.
Mulvaney no longer has constituents. But according to his internal schedule, he’s continued taking meetings with lobbyists and companies who financed his past political campaigns.
via Daily Beast.
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President Trump’s Budget Director Mick Mulvaney – who wants to cut Social Security and Medicare – has been meeting with corporate lobbyists who donated to his past Congressional campaigns. Unacceptable.
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