Naughty White House Chief of Staff Admits Immigrants Are a Good Thing, U.S. Needs More of Them

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/02/mick-mulvaney-immigration-needed

Levin Report
Naughty White House Chief of Staff Admits Immigrants Are a Good Thing, U.S. Needs More of Them
Mick Mulvaney has gone rogue. Stephen Miller will not be pleased.
By Bess Levin
February 20, 2020


For the majority of his time in the Trump administration, Mick Mulvaney has been a good little solider who‘s sacrificed what few shreds of dignity he had left in him in service to the boss. When Donald Trump wanted the former South Carolina representative to bury the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a shallow grave, Mulvaney was more than happy to answer the call, cutting the agency off at the knees on the three days each week he wasn’t busy at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget. When no one wanted the job of Trump’s third chief of staff, Mulvaney generously stepped up to the plate. When the president wanted to withhold aid from Ukraine in order to pressure the country into investigating his domestic rivals, there was Mulvaney, wasting no time trying to make the whole thing look legit. When reporters asked if, in fact, it was legitimate to freeze congressionally-approved aid as part of some kind of quid pro quo deal, Mulvaney nonchalantly told them that, yes, stuff like this happens all the time.

When the same reporters wondered aloud, on another occasion, if it was not, in fact, a little bit psychotic to attempt to hide the USS John S. McCain so as not to upset Trump, it was Mulvaney who told them no, that’s totally normal, and how dare you for asking. In short, he’s among the loyalist Trump administration footstools who never fail to do the president’s bidding both in private and public. So it was more than a little surprising to learn that Mulvaney went rogue this week, saying out loud a series of words that have effectively been banned from passing administration officials’ lips: Immigration is good and the U.S. needs a lot more of it.

The Washington Post reports that at a private gathering in England on Wednesday, Mulvaney told a group of people that the United States is “desperate—desperate—for more people...we are running out of people to fuel the economic growth that we‘ve had in our nation over the last four years. We need more immigrants.” That a member of Team Trump would not only admit that the country needs more immigrants but that it is immigrants who contribute to economic growth is, of course, about as shocking as hearing a recording of Trump telling aides that Hillary Clinton ran a great campaign in 2016 and probably would’ve won if not for Emailgate, which he believed was totally overblown and not fair to her.

Mulvaney’s remarks appear in contrast to the public position of several top figures in Trump’s White House—especially that of senior policy adviser Stephen Miller—who have been working to slash both legal and illegal immigration through a slew of policies that aim to close off the U.S. border to foreigners. They have insisted that the steady arrival of newcomers depresses wages for the blue-collar U.S. workers whose votes helped lift Trump to the presidency in 2016…. Hard-line immigration restrictionists want fewer new arrivals—legal and illegal—arguing that immigrants increase wage competition against U.S. workers. Miller and former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon embraced those arguments during the president’s 2016 campaign, which they argued was key to his electoral strategy in Rust Belt states that have suffered from job losses and wage stagnation.

Trump has bucked several decades of bipartisan enthusiasm for immigration, buttressing the system with an array of physical and legal barriers. The president is building hundreds of miles of steel barriers along the boundary with Mexico while slashing refugee admissions to their lowest level on record.

It’s not clear if Trump, who reportedly canceled government subscriptions to the Washington Post and New York Times last year because the papers were mean to him, has been made aware of Mulvaney’s comments. Miller, who is presumably on his honeymoon after a real, live woman agreed to marry him over the weekend, has likely spent the hours since the news broke absolutely stewing, if not screaming at a travel agent over the phone about getting him on the next flight back to Washington to confront his colleague.

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1. Miller

who would marry that weasel. POS he is.

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3. Press secretary to Pence, that's who

[bdamomma]

4. 2 losers

may they burn in hell.

[Iliyah]

2. You're fired . . .