Epstein Secrets

been a model of consistency. EFTA00674073 Even with that fact in mind, however, it must have surprised at least a few Trump backers to learn from Mulvaney that bloating up the Pentagon budget was such a high priority of the Trump campaign. "What you see in this budget," the budget director explained Tu

ump has adopted as he has moved from the capricious politics of his initial candidacy to the reality of a ever more rigidly right-wing presidency. Mick Mulvaney, Trump's man at the Office of Management and Budget, said on the eve of the president's "Budget Blueprint" speech, "The president is doing what he s

, and his dad, a World War II vet who didn't finish high school, worked as a telephone lineman, climbing poles and installing phones. Bob went from Pensacola, Fla., public schools to the University of Florida — where another future Post editor and writer, David Finkel, got through school working at Pizza

rney Rudolph W. Giuliani, would be seen as subverting military justice. After that Trump tweet, Spencer cautioned acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney that he would not overturn the planned SEAL peer review of Gallagher without a direct presidential order; he privately told associates that if such

iew has turned up some unflattering exchanges and facts that could at a minimum embarrass the president. ... "In the early August email exchanges, Mulvaney asked acting OMB director Vought for an update on the legal rationale for withholding the aid and how much longer it could be delayed. Trump had

arns Trump that `the rule of law is what sets us apart from our adversaries' Richard V. Spencer visits the Blue Angels at the squadron's hangar in Pensacola, Fla., on Nov. 5. He was forced out on Sunday as secretary of the Navy. I Schunnaker/Navy/EPA-EFE/Rex) BYE HOHMANN with Mariana Alfaro THE BIG I

n't anyone on their staff. A White House official had previously said the call logs don't align with the cellphone records of acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who is also the budget office director. A senior House Intelligence Committee official said the panels overseeing the impeachment probe are continu

Priebus and Kelly had clashed with the president over his Twitter statements and the influence of his eldest daughter and her husband. "Instead, Mulvaney has focused much of his energy on creating a new White House power center revolving around the long-dormant Domestic Policy Council and encompassi

kers. Sign up to receive the newsletter. Emergency responders head to the scene of a shooting on Friday morning near the Naval Air Base Station in Pensacola, Fla. (WEAR-TV via AP) WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING: -- A shooter who opened fire Friday morning at Naval Air Station Pensacola, killing at least two p

-bore for him. “The first couple of times when I went to the White House, someone had to say, This is Mick Mulvaney, he’s the budget director,” said Mulvaney. And in Mulvaney’s telling Trump was too scattershot to ever be of much help, tending to interrupt planning with random questions that seem to have c

by Bannon. He made several attempts to comb through his father-in-law’s words on his own before expressing frustration with the task and giving up. Mick Mulvaney, the former South Carolina congressman now head of the Office of Management and Budget and directly charged with creating the Trump budget that would

his cohost () on the MSNBC show Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski, came for lunch at the White House. Scarborough is a former Republican congressman from Pensacola, Florida, and Brzezinski is the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a high-ranking aide in the Johnson White House and Jimmy Carter’s National Security

view has turned up some unflattering exchanges and facts that could at a minimum embarrass the president. ... "In the early August email exchanges, Mulvaney asked acting OMB director Vought for an update on the legal rationale for withholding the aid and how much longer it could be delayed. Trump had ma

warns Trump that `the rule of law is what sets us apart from our adversaries' Richard V. Spencer visits the Blue Angels at the squadron's hangar in Pensacola, Fla., on Nov. 5. He was forced out on Sunday as secretary of the Navy. (MI Schumaker/Navy/EPA-EFE/Rex) BY HOHMANN with Mariana Mara THE BIG ID

y cares that the federal balance sheet is drowning in red ink. Undoubtedly, many people who work in the White House — led by acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney — want spending cuts. And these administration officials insist that Trump has told them he wants to make big cuts in 2021 if he wins a second term

bia are digging deeper into the background of the Saudi aviation student who fatally shot three people and wounded eight others at a naval base in Pensacola, Fla. The FBI is investigating the incident as an act of terrorism. Devlin Barrett, Carol Morello and Hannah Knowles report: "Officials sought to r

n't anyone on their staff. A White House official had previously said the call logs don't align with the cellphone records of acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who is also the budget office director. A senior House Intelligence Committee official said the panels overseeing the impeachment probe are conti

kers. Sign up to receive the newsletter. Emergency responders head to the scene of a shooting on Friday morning near the Naval Air Base Station in Pensacola, Fla. (WEAR-TV via AP) WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING: -- A shooter who opened fire Friday morning at Naval Air Station Pensacola, killing at least two p