Mick Mulvaney: DHS can’t ‘spend money from Mexico’ for border wall

By Kelly Cohen

Published December 23, 2018 2:37pm ET

Mick Mulvaney: DHS can’t ‘spend money from Mexico’ for border wall — "It's a policy dream come true to be able to make the arguments directly to the president of the United States, and if I lose, that's great. I'm not the president. He is. And I absolutely respect his final decision," says Mick Mulvaney. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

President Trump’s new incoming chief of staff said Sunday that any money for the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has to come from the Treasury Department — not Mexico.

“Technically, you and I both know that it cannot work exactly like that,” Mick Mulvaney said on ABC’s “This Week.”

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