Trump budget more of a ‘messaging document’

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President Trump’s budget chief may be the first ever in that position who didn’t rip his hair out when Congress dubbed his work “dead on arrival” or when the administration’s own agency bosses shrugged at proposed cuts.

In fact, Mick Mulvaney, the Office of Management and Budget director, learned pretty early in the budget process that “the president’s budget is, at the end of the day, a messaging document.”

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