Mulvaney Into the Breach
Mulvaney Into the Breach
Mick Mulvaney on Jan. 20. President Donald Trump tapped budget director Mick Mulvaney as acting White house chief of staff on Dec. 14.
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President Trump tweeted late Friday that White House budget director Mick Mulvaney will be his new “acting” chief of staff, and that looks like the best choice among the many mooted alternatives.
Mr. Mulvaney has done good work on the budget, later taking on double duty as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The latter role was fraught with political land mines that Mr. Mulvaney avoided, and his former aide Kathy Kraninger was recently confirmed by the Senate and will run the agency for the next five years. That’s a credit to his eye for talent.
Mr. Mulvaney is a former member of the Freedom Caucus in Congress who has become more politically realistic in the White House. But his conservative principles will be crucial in the next two years as Democrats and perhaps some in Mr. Trump’s family try to lure the President into expanding the entitlement state or raising taxes. Mr. Mulvaney’s ties on Capitol Hill will also be an advantage as a war-time consigliere once House Democrats gin up their impeachment machinery.
Despite Mr. Trump’s “acting” tweet, the White House says Mr. Mulvaney’s new role has no time limit. He might even stay if Mr. Trump lets him act like a real chief of staff.
Appeared in the December 15, 2018, print edition.
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