WH budget chief: 'Detailed analysis' of tax plan not yet possible
Source: The Hill
BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE - 10/01/17 09:35 AM EDT
White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney in a Sunday interview dismissed criticism of the Republican tax plan, saying it is not yet complete.
In an interview with CNNs State of the Union, host Jake Tapper asked Mulvaney if he could say how the plan will benefit the wealthiest Americans.
No, in fact, I dont think anybody can. And anybody who says they can is simply lying to you, Mulvaney said. Why is that? Its because the bill is not finished yet. Mulvaney emphasized that the plan rolled out last week by President Trump and congressional Republcans is a framework.
Ive seen the criticism and all I can tell you is that no one can make real detailed analysis of the plan yet because it is not finished, he said.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/353303-white-house-budget-chief-no-one-can-analyze-tax-plan-because-its-not
Mulvaney: Price's travel was legal, but question is if it was right
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney explained on Sunday the investigations into former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price's use of private jets for government business, saying the travel was legal, but ethical questions remain.
"My guess is, and there's a couple of ongoing investigations into a couple of different agencies right now, we'll find out that all of this travel was entirely legal. The question is whether or not it's right, and I think that's the lens the president wants to look at this travel through, not just whether or not it follows the law," Mulvaney told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday."
Mulvaney's comments come after the White House issued a memo to members of President Trump's Cabinet on Friday outlining rules for travel after Price resigned on Friday over backlash for his expensive travel habits.
Price was not the only Cabinet member under fire for his travel on government business.
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dem4decades
(11,296 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)When your primary goal is to destroy the very organization you're working for, you can't govern it - or write an effective budget for it
Let them make their comparisons to running a business under that lens of critique.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)mulvaney is a far-right extremist crackpot teabagging koch brothers tool who doesn't belong ANYWHERE near public policy making. In a sane world, he wouldn't be.
So, any of his pronouncements need to be viewed through that lens. Of course, the corporate media almost entirely omits the context.
karynnj
(59,504 posts)why is it wrong for independent economists to put out their analyses based on the information put out.
What this is is a blatant attempt to allow them - and only them - to be the first to define what this plan is. They can make up any stories or fantasies about the fabled growth that comes by giving the Trumps and Mnunchins of the country huge tax cuts - while bizarrely claiming that we "can't know" whether Trump is lying or completely ignorant about the affect on him. This even as the AMT is eliminated, passthroughs from S corporations, which he has many of, getting very favorable tax treatment, and the estate tax disappearing. The ONLY way this is true is if - as rumoured - Trump really is either in debt or has far less money than he said when he filed to run for election.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)They can't lock in anything because they cam't know which Senators they'll have to bribe with major revisions to win their votes the night before it is scheduled for final passage
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)will vote on it before it has be analyzed ???????
Wild Bears shit in the woods?