{"id":231925,"date":"2017-05-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=231925"},"modified":"2017-05-03T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T20:03:00","slug":"budget-director-mulvaney-takes-over-white-house-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/02\/budget-director-mulvaney-takes-over-white-house-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Director Mulvaney Takes Over White House Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Mick Mulvaney is the budget director for Donald Trump. They just had… In fact, he\u2019s still doing it. He\u2019s doing the White House briefing today on the budget. Mulvaney is a great guy. Mulvaney is a former member of Congress, and he\u2019s a Freedom Caucus type. He\u2019s a Tea Partier. He\u2019s a dyed-in-the-wool one of us, folks — a straight down the middle, top to bottom, solid conservative. He\u2019s the budget guy. I\u2019ve met him, I talked to him about their original health care plan and what their objectives for it were and why there were phase 1, 2, and 3.<\/p>\n

\"\"So, anyway, he\u2019s doing the briefing today to explain the budget as the vice president did in his guest appearance on this program a little less than two hours ago<\/a>. And one of the things that Mulvaney said is that, yeah, the Democrats have been trying to claim victory, but that\u2019s nuts because this was a bipartisan budget deal. And Mulvaney said the American people are the winners here. The Democrats didn\u2019t win. There\u2019s no partisan victory in this budget, he says. He pointed out the $21 billion additional spending on the military for less than $5 billion in nonmilitary spending parity ended.<\/p>\n

How many of you even knew that that existed? Well, you\u2019re a wonk, Snerdley. Snerdley\u2019s hand shot up. This is a holdover from the sequester days. And basically if the military got an additional dollar in spending, then some social program over here had to get the same dollar. The deal that was struck essentially said, “Look, if you warmongers,” the Democrats were talking, “You warmongers, if you want more money for defense then we\u2019re gonna get more money for our social programs.”<\/p>\n

And that was part of the deal, it was called parity. And what the Trump people are saying is we blew parity out of the water. We got $21 billion in new defense spending for the army of freedom, the army of democracy, arsenal of democracy, and we only had to spend $5 billion nonmilitary spending, so we\u2019ve defeated parity. He said that this the largest allocation for border security in 10 years. Even though there\u2019s no wall, there\u2019s additional. And the Democrats — this is true — the Democrats did agree to more spending on border security. It\u2019s not being touted, but it\u2019s in there.<\/p>\n

Health issues for miners in Appalachia which the Democrats are taking credit for. Mulvaney said it was Trump\u2019s demand that it was in there, Trump demanded that there be money spent on health care and issues for miners, which is the commitment and the follow-through on a promise. Here is what Mulvaney said in the press conference that the Democrats did not get in this budget deal. They got no Obamacare bailout money. They failed to do this for their base. They got no new money for Puerto Rico. They got no renewable energy subsidies for wind and solar. No new money in that.<\/p>\n