You asked me a question : is the shutdown entirely off the table ? I would say no. Mick Mulvaney More Quotes by Mick Mulvaney More Quotes From Mick Mulvaney Since my name is on the door, I want to be here. Mick Mulvaney latest-headlines We are looking at the cost-sharing payments on a month-to-month basis. We made them today. We'll make them tomorrow, but I don't think we'll see a long-term commitment from this administration. Mick Mulvaney politics So the president got his priorities funded, more money for the military, more money for southern -- the southern border security and more money for school choice, those are the same exact priorities that I talked about in March when we laid out the budget. Mick Mulvaney opinion I think the President is frustrated with the fact that he negotiated in good faith with the Democrats and they went out to try and spike the football and make him look bad, i think what you heard this morning was his sense of frustration over how he's getting mistreated by the Democrats on this bipartisan piece of legislation. Mick Mulvaney politics It’s the same discussion they had about the Bush tax cuts in the previous administration: Are you better off having a smaller cut that is permanent, or a larger cut that is temporary? Mick Mulvaney politics I don't think we've decided that part yet, it's a balancing act in that you can either have a small tax cut that's permanent or a large tax cut that is short-term. Mick Mulvaney politics I think the President was fairly straightforward, we're not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that. So that is a specific tie to his campaign. Mick Mulvaney politics We have our list of priorities, we want more money for defense. We want to build a border wall. We want more money for immigration enforcement, law enforcement. Mick Mulvaney politics I do not think the government is going to shut down. Mick Mulvaney politics That story got a little blown out of proportion, it's been an interesting process. I went to go talk to the Freedom Caucus about health care a couple weeks back. They knew what the deal was. The deal was that I'm just on a different team right now. But it's good competition. It's a real collegial thing still. Mick Mulvaney top-news This is really important to the President, i can tell you that this is a big part of draining the swamp. ... Really, what you are talking about doing is restructuring Washington, DC, and that is how you drain the swamp. Mick Mulvaney politics What we are doing tomorrow is replacing the across-the-board hiring freeze that we put into place on day one in office and replacing it with a smarter plan, a more strategic plan, a more surgical plan. Mick Mulvaney politics I think the one thing we learned this week is that Washington was a lot more broken than President Trump thought that it was. Mick Mulvaney top-news It’s up to those guys in there, you heard a lot of members tonight express their passion about getting this done. Mick Mulvaney politics The next question is going to be: How many miles of wall does that build, right? We don't know the answer to that question because we haven't settled on construction types, we haven't settled on where we're going to start. Mick Mulvaney top-news We have said this in the very beginning—we think the CBO is measuring against the wrong thing, to that same group of voters, go ask them. Go find the 55-year old person who is on ObamaCare right now and ask them if they can afford to go to the doctor—they will tell you, without exception, that they can’t and they know that our program will give that to them. Mick Mulvaney politics I love the folks at the Congressional Budget Office, they work really hard. But sometimes we ask them to do stuff they're not capable of doing. And estimating the impact of a bill of this size probably isn't the best use of their time. Mick Mulvaney latest-headlines We have a framework. We have a really, really good bill, we encourage the House and the Senate to try and make the bill better. We've laid out the things that the President needs. Mick Mulvaney top-news It’s falling into the same pattern as the previous speaker. Mick Mulvaney politics To the extent that there is a Republican president who tries to overreach his executive privilege, we will push back against it. Mick Mulvaney politics
