Mick Mulvaney has floated the idea of a constitutional amendment to bar older Americans from running for public office or serving as an Article III judge.
"Consider something along the lines of the following: 'It shall be unlawful for any person to stand for federal election after that person has reached 75 years of age. Furthermore, it shall be unlawful for any Article III judge to serve after reaching the age of 75,'" Mulvaney wrote.
He acknowledged that ratification of such an amendment would render both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump ineligible to run in 2024. Currently, the two men are the clear frontrunner in their respective party's presidential primary.
"Ratification would immediately upend both the 2024 presidential election, as both Joe Biden (80) and Donald Trump (77) would be disqualified. Justice Clarence Thomas (75) would be forced to retire. And roughly 20 percent of the U.S. Senate, including Mitch McConnell (81), Bernie Sanders (81), and Joe Manchin (76), would be prohibited from running for re-election," Mulvaney noted.
"Provisions could be made to phase over time or to take effect years after ratification, if the immediate impact is deemed too dramatic. But that is what amendments are supposed to be: dramatic changes that have very broad support," he added.
Mulvaney served as Office of Management and Budget director during part of Trump's administration. He also served as acting White House chief of staff, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and as U.S. special envoy to Northern Ireland.
Mulvaney, who served as a lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives prior to his time in the Trump administration, chose to resign from his special envoy to Northern Ireland post after the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
In a post on Truth Social earlier this year, Trump referred to Mulvaney as "uncharismatic" and "a born loser."
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Mick Mulvaney, who served as acting White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, condemned his former boss on Tuesday as "the only Republican who could lose."
Reacting to Trump's official 2024 campaign announcement, Mulvaney declared that Trump's candidacy is not good for the Republican Party.
"I think he's the only Republican who could lose," Mulvaney said on CNN.
He predicted that Trump will probably become the Republican nominee because Trump's hard-core supporters will push him over the finish line "under the winner-take-all primary system."
But, Mulvaney explained, Trump will ultimately distract voters from the disaster that has been Joe Biden's presidency, helping Democrats keep control of the White House.
"That means the 2024 race is not about Joe Biden or whatever Democrat is on the ticket, not about inflation, not about world events, not about abortion. It will be about Donald Trump, the same thing we saw in 2020," Mulvaney said.
"No one voted for Joe Biden. Everybody voted for or against Donald Trump. It was a referendum on him. And that's what we're hurtling toward in 2024," he continued. "I don't see the outcome being any different two years from now than it was two years ago."
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Republicans are searching for answers after disappointing elections resulted in a narrow House majority and a Senate minority.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, like many Republicans, blames losing moderate voters — the true independents who determine election outcomes — for their losses.
But how did Republicans fail to appeal to such voters in perhaps the most unfavorable political environment possible for Democrats? Inflation is sky-high, gas prices remain a problem, and President Joe Biden is deeply unpopular. The answer to the question, according to McConnell, is that Republican candidates involved in "chaos, negativity, excessive attacks" drove away moderate voters.
Election data, indeed, confirms that Trump's preferred candidates earned less support than moderate Republicans.
CBS News staffers are reportedly in "turmoil" over the company's decision to hire former acting Trump White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney as a paid on-air contributor.
Verified left-wingers and journalists on Twitter reacted poorly after Mulvaney appeared on CBS's streaming service Tuesday to comment on President Joe Biden's new budget proposal. MSNBC columnist Hayes Brown declared that CBS was offering the former Trump official an unearned chance at "rehabilitation," accusing him of enabling "Trump's lies and scheming." Democratic adviser Kurt Bardella called Mulvaney "an architect of democracy's demise" and said "he should not be legitimized by being affiliated with a major news network." Media Matters' Matt Gertz said the hiring decision was an "embarrassment."
Mulvaney, a former three-term Congressman, was appointed by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as the director of the Office of Management and Budget in 2016. He served as acting White House chief of staff from January 2019 until March 2020, and also spent time as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau between November 2017 and December 2018.
According to the Washington Post, staffers inside CBS News shared those apoplectic reactions, suggesting that Mulvaney's hire "was jeopardizing [the network's] long history of journalistic excellence."
“I know everyone I talked to today was embarrassed about the hiring,” said one anonymous CBS News employee. According to the Post, staffers are upset that Mulvaney was hired because some of his past comments contradicted what mainstream journalists had reported at various points throughout Trump's presidency.
“Everyone is baffled,” remarked another employee. "It makes no sense to hire a guy whose entire job was to lie to us on behalf of Trump.”
A senior CBS News producer defended the hiring by mentioning that 74.2 million Americans voted for Trump in the 2020 presidential election. According to the Washington Post, top executives at CBS News want to hire more Republican voices at the network in anticipation that the GOP will take control of Congress after the 2022 midterm elections.
The paper obtained an audio recording of CBS News co-president Neeraj Khemlani telling staff at a meeting earlier this month that hiring Republicans is a "priority" so that the company will have "access" to Congress if Republicans regain the majority.
“If you look at some of the people that we’ve been hiring on a contributor basis, being able to make sure that we are getting access to both sides of the aisle is a priority because we know the Republicans are going to take over, most likely, in the midterms,” Khemlani reportedly said. “A lot of the people that we’re bringing in are helping us in terms of access to that side of the equation.”
A spokesperson for CBS did not comment to the Washington Post on the recording.
“CBS News is continuing to build up its roster of contributors on both sides of the aisle ahead of the midterms and the 2024 election,” the spokesperson said.
Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's former chief of staff and current special U.S. envoy to Northern Ireland, has resigned from the Trump administration after the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
According to a Thursday morning report from CNBC, Mulvaney said he called Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday evening to deliver his resignation.
Mulvaney made the remarks on a "Squawk Box" interview.
"I called [Secretary of State] Mike Pompeo last night to let him know I was resigning from that. I can't do it. I can't stay," he said, pointing out that Trump was "not the same as he was eight months ago."
He also speculated that other Trump administration officials may soon follow suit.
"Those who choose to stay, and I have talked to a couple of them, are choosing to stay because they are concerned that the president might put someone in to replace them that could make things even worse," Mulvaney said.
Mulvaney added, "We didn't sign up for what you saw last night. We signed up for making America great again, we signed up for lower taxes and less regulation. The president has a long list of successes that we can be proud of."
"[A]ll of that went away yesterday, and I think you're right to ask the question as to 'How did it happen?'" he said, and insisted that the violent riot that took place on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol will overshadow any of the president's accomplishments and forever tarnish his legacy.
“The folks who spent time away from our families, put our careers on the line to go work for Donald Trump, and we did have those successes to look back at, but now it will always be, 'Oh yeah, you work for the guy who tried to overtake the government,'" Mulvaney added. “That legacy is gone as of yesterday and that's extraordinarily disappointing to those of us who work for him."
John Kelly has done a disservice to the nation by being dishonest and insubordinate, quitting on the job, and now smearing Trump to help elect perhaps the worst presidential candidate in history.
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