White House budget chief: Military was more important than deficit cutting
By: Joe Gould   14 hours ago
WASHINGTON — White House budget Director Mick Mulvaney defended President Trump’s abandonment of his campaign pledge to erase the national debt as necessary to secure military funding.
“It’s not hypocritical,†said Mulvaney, who served in Congress as a deficit hawk.
“I think the president takes deficits very clearly, but he also recognizes we live in a world where in order to get the funding that we needed for the Defense Department— that we considered critical, and a priority of ours, we had to agree to higher non-defense discretionary levels than we would have liked,†Mulvaney said.
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