Mick Mulvaney (21 July 1967-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-SC 6) from 3 January 2011 to 16 February 2017 (succeeding John Spratt and preceding Ralph Norman), Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 16 February 2017 to 1 January 2019 (succeeding Shaun Donovan), and White House Chief of Staff from 1 January 2019 to 31 March 2020 (succeeding John F. Kelly and preceding Mark Meadows).
Biography[]
Mick Mulvaney was born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1967, and he was involved in his family's homebuilding and real estate businesses before serving in the State House from 2007 to 2009, in the State Senate from 2009 to 2011, and in the US House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017. In 2017, he was appointed as a member of Donald Trump's government when he was made Director of the Office of Management and Budget, despite having endorsed Rand Paul for president in 2016. He oversaw a dramatic expansion in the deficit as the result of both spending increases and tax cuts, and they were unusually high for a period of economic expansion. On 14 December 2018, Trump nominated Mulvaney as his new Chief of Staff, despite Mulvaney's past comments that Trump was a "terrible human being", that he would be disqualified from office in an "ordinary universe", and that his border wall idea was "absurd and almost childish". In March 2020, he was replaced as Chief of Staff by Mark Meadows. On 1 May 2020, he was appointed Special Envoy for Northern Ireland, but he resigned on 7 January 2021 to protest Trump’s incitement of the 2021 United States coup d'etat attempt.