TRUMPS ACTING CHIEF OF STAFF QUESTIONS WHY HE TOOK
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Mulvaney starts to draw ire as shutdown drags on
White House aides and close advisers are sniping about Mick Mulvaney’s political skills as the government shutdown enters its second month.
Mulvaney’s counsel on the shutdown has largely been to urge Trump to keep up his demands for $5.7 billion in funding for a wall or structure along the U.S.-Mexico border. He previously advised Trump not to support any short-term funding bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, one of the government agencies currently without funding, and it was his idea to cancel Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Afghanistan aboard a military airplane as payback for her request to delay the president‘s State of the Union address, said senior administration aides and sources close to Mulvaney.
“Mulvaney’s big selling point is that he a political guy, but he seems to have screwed this up and put us in a box,” said one Republican close to the White House. “It’s like the president and others are saying, ‘This is Mick’s fault”.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/25/gov...ey-1125283