Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney this week braced Trump donors for what he hopes will be only a “moderate and short” recession. Three-quarters of business economists expect a recession by the end of 2021. https://t.co/UknrEZmysw
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) August 22, 2019
They’d throw him off the GOP Titanic for this, but Mulvaney’s the Acting Head of Everything They’ve Still Got… and possibly the only one who’s figured out how to work the light switches in the Oval Office.
He told 50 people who would not be impacted by the recession.
— Outside Agitator (@FairwaysOfLife) August 20, 2019
this sounds an awful lot like "recessions are good and easy to win" https://t.co/UonZqtk4pL
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) August 21, 2019
Telling steel workers the economy is fine while whispering to jillionaire donors that they should invest in canned food and shotguns. Gargantuan scandal any non-Hellworld timeline. https://t.co/kjCncWRJow
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) August 21, 2019
Competition will be stiff, but I’m betting the single most obnoxious Republican reversal of the post-Trump era will be Mick Mulvaney deciding he’s a deficit hawk again https://t.co/zkZxBi5sKN
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) August 21, 2019
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