WASHINGTON -- On the day after he made more news than any chief of staff in recent White House history -- much less an acting one -- Mick Mulvaney went about his business as usual.He finalized plans for hosting Republican members of Congress this weekend at Camp David, a form of outreach he has regularly
WASHINGTON — On the day after he made more news than any chief of staff in recent White House history — much less an acting one — Mick Mulvaney went about his business as usual.
The word “acting” is still conspicuously stuck to his title, even though Trump could remove it at any time. His relationship with the president runs hot and cold, depending on the day, though never quite cold enough for Trump to fire him.That is in part because it’s unclear who might be willing to take a job that Trump struggled to fill when it last came open.
Story continuesThen the questions quickly turned from whether Trump was using the presidency to enrich himself to why his administration recently froze $391 million in congressionally allocated military aid to Ukraine and whether it was an effort to coerce its government into pursuing political investigations sought by Trump.
Asked about Mulvaney’s comments, Trump said he hadn’t watched them and appeared unbothered. “I think he clarified it,” Trump said. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a former colleague of Mulvaney in the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, accused the media of taking his friend out of context, then said Mulvaney’s remarks had been incorrect.
“I think the senior advisers in the White House, led by Mulvaney, have become a cult,” he said. “To the extent there’s any discernible defense or strategy here, it seems to be, ‘There’s no defense — so let’s pretend it’s normal.
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