Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney accused his own party of being hypocritical when it comes to deficits.
Mulvaney, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget, made the admission during a Wednesday night speech at the Oxford Union, according to the Washington Post.
“My party is very interested in deficits when there is a Democrat in the White House. The worst thing in the whole world is deficits when Barack Obama was the president. Then Donald Trump became president, and we’re a lot less interested as a party,” he stated.
The acting chief of staff called the growing deficit “extraordinarily disturbing” but added that neither of the parties nor voters care about the issue. In addition, Mulvaney’s speech, which lasted about an hour, touched on climate change, impeachment, and the “deep state.”
Last month, the Congressional Budget Office announced that the federal budget deficit will exceed the $1 trillion indefinitely, after reaching that mark in September. In its annual report, the agency said that the deficit would eclipse the trillion dollar mark in the 2020 fiscal year, up from $984 billion the year before, and then rise in future years to roughly $1.7 trillion in 2030.
