McCain: 'Leaning against' voting for Trump's budget pick
Source: The Hill
BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 01/25/17 09:18 AM EST
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Wednesday he is "leaning against" President Trump's pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
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McCain said he's "very, very worried" that Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), Trump's nominee to head the OMB, will continue the efforts to "slash the military," which McCain said has been cut by 21 percent in the last eight years. "I don't think any of us believe that we're 21 percent safer," McCain added.
Mulvaney needs the support of 50 senators for his nomination to be confirmed. The GOP has a 52-seat majority, meaning Mulvaney could be blocked if three Republican senators join the entire Democratic conference in opposing him.
McCain also expressed concern with Mulvaney on Tuesday. He called out Mulvaney for a series of votes he made against increasing military funding and in favor of pulling U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Europe. Maybe you dont take it with the seriousness that it deserves, McCain said of supporting the military during Mulvaneys hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/316021-mccain-says-hes-leaning-against-trumps-budget-pick
Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)montanacowboy
(6,101 posts)why does anyone put any credibility into this asshole's word on anything
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)will start, of that I am certain.
So this will not go this way,either he gets a different guy or he makes this guy do his bidding.
Remember folks, nothing any republican ever does is for any reason other than to profit themselves personally.
I would say people like McCain are exceptions but he keeps proving his uselessness by voting for garbage like tillerson
Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)SamKnause
(13,110 posts)Just like Rubio had reservations about Tillerson.
Fuck them all.
They vote in lockstep against anything that is good for America or
the American people.
Fuck them all !!!!!!!!!!!!