WASHINGTON _ Rep. Mick Mulvaney Saturday became the second South Carolina Republican named to join President-elect Donald Trump's inner circle, with Trump choosing him to be director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Mulvaney joins Gov. Nikki Haley, who will be Trump's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, for influential positions in the Trump administration. The office, known as OMB, oversees and enforces federal budgeting issues.
A statement from the Trump transition team said, "Mulvaney brings a wealth of experience on economic, budgetary, and fiscal issues to his new role." The statement called him "a strong voice in Congress for reining in out-of-control spending, fighting government waste and enacting tax policies that will allow working Americans to thrive."
"The Trump administration will restore budgetary and fiscal sanity back in Washington after eight years of an out-of-control, tax and spend financial agenda, and will work with Congress to create policies that will be friendly to American workers and businesses," Mulvaney said in the statement. "Each day, families across our nation make disciplined choices about how to spend their hard earned money, and the federal government should exercise the same discretion that hardworking Americans do every day."
