Mick Mulvaney Is Trump’s Chief Enabler
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🗓️ 2 April 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Mick Mulvaney is not here to rein in the president. How Trump’s new acting chief of staff has the White House pursuing a Freedom Caucus agenda.
Guest: Jordan Weissmann, Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent.
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| 0:00.0 | This weekend, watching the Sunday talk shows felt relentless. |
| 0:08.0 | On offense, a humanitarian nightmare at the U.S.-Mexico border has President Trump threatening to shut the border down. |
| 0:17.0 | The president had just threatened to shut down the border with Mexico. |
| 0:20.0 | This was a couple days after he proposed ditching Obamacare. |
| 0:24.6 | We'll soon be known as the party of health care. |
| 0:28.5 | And the person the administration sent out into this media scrum was... |
| 0:33.7 | President Trump's acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney. |
| 0:36.7 | Thank you for joining us. Mick Mulvaney. staff, Mick Mulvaney. Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:38.3 | Mick Mulvaney. |
| 0:40.3 | Listening to Mick Mulvaney argued the Trump administration's case, but a little like listening to a hijacker, explain why he'd taken over an airplane. |
| 0:48.3 | Like on health care, he started out by explaining what he saw as the problem. |
| 0:52.3 | Obama care. People are actually paying money to the government not to have to take Obamacare. |
| 0:57.0 | That is a symptom of something that is desperately broken. |
| 1:01.0 | Then Mulvaney explained he was being forced to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. |
| 1:06.0 | We would love to work with the Democrats on repairing that problem, on fixing things. |
| 1:10.0 | We honestly don't think they will do any of that. They don't think they'll work with us Democrats on repairing that problem, on fixing things. We honestly don't think |
| 1:10.9 | they will do any of that. They don't think they'll work with us unless this court case |
| 1:15.6 | proceeds. And Obamacare is found to be unconstitutional, which is what we believe. |
| 1:19.6 | When he was talking about the border, he made the same argument that the only fix is to just |
| 1:25.4 | break everything. |
| 1:26.4 | It is not working. We're supposed to fix this by changing the laws. |
| 1:29.3 | Democrats won't do that. |
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