Trump Picks as Budget Chief GOP Lawmaker Who Battled Boehner
- Mulvaney is founder of Freedom Caucus, advocates cost-cutting
- South Carolina lawmaker waged fight that led to 2013 shutdown
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President-elect Donald Trump said he will nominate Representative Mick Mulvaney, a founding member of an outspoken group of fiscal conservatives who helped oust a former U.S. House speaker, to be director of the Office of Management and Budget.
“We are going to do great things for the American people with Mick Mulvaney,” Trump said Saturday in an e-mailed statement. “Right now we are nearly $20 trillion in debt, but Mick is a very high-energy leader with deep convictions for how to responsibly manage our nation’s finances and save our country from drowning in red ink.”