Mick Mulvaney

Beating Elizabeth Warren at her own game.

Mick Mulvaney says he'd take the chief of staff job if offered, and Michael Anton defends the upcoming North Korea summit.

Republicans are pushing a budget-cutting process Democrats say punishes the vulnerable. The real problem is that it's pointless.

The White House released a proposal to "rescind" past funds on Tuesday, but speculation about such an idea had met with skepticism from some Senate Republicans.

The White House released a proposal to "rescind" past funds on Tuesday, but speculation about such an idea had met with skepticism from some Senate Republicans.

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Michael Warren and deputy online editor Jim Swift join host Charlie Sykes to discuss whether or not Dr. Ronny Jackson, President Trump's pick to lead the VA stands a shot at getting confirmed by the Senate, Mick Mulvaney's views on lobbyist…

Plus, Title IX... forever?

The roll-out Monday of the White House budget proposal revealed a $1.5-trillion infrastructure plan, the expected funding to address the opioid problem, and, of course, funding for border security initiatives, including the southern border wall. But it’s a controversial revision of a USDA program…

Republicans’ first victory of 2018 will likely be Judge Timothy J. Kelly’s denial of the plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction in English v. Trump following a hearing on the Friday before Christmas.

If we’ve learned anything over the past year, it’s that the Republican party, even when handed full control of the American government, is so riven and otherwise dysfunctional that it simply can’t govern. The one consolation Republicans have is that voters seem to intuitively understand that while…

This year’s strangest political story may be Elizabeth Warren’s attempted coup of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the federal agency created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.

"If we’re going to make the investments we need,” remarked President-elect Barack Obama in 2008, “we must also be willing to shed the spending we don’t. . . . We cannot sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer dollars on programs that have outlived their usefulness or exist solely because…

The president’s crack Monday afternoon about “Pocahontas”—aka Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren—was classic Donald Trump.

It’s been more than five days since President Trump figuratively stood by Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. As he was leaving the White House last Tuesday to spend Thanksgiving with his family at Mar-a-Lago, Trump stopped to talk with the press and told them Alabama does not need to send a…

On his way out the door, Richard Cordray, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), left a parting gift for President Trump. Announcing his immediate resignation on Black Friday—when Americans are traditionally more focused on recovering from their tryptophan hangovers or…

The White House is downplaying the potential for a showdown at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday, when President Trump’s pick to lead the agency shows up along with the pick by the agency’s former director.

With the Senate passing a revised budget resolution last week, President Trump and his administration are kicking off this week with a renewed pitch for tax reform. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence joined the GOP House conference call Sunday, and the president encouraged House Republicans to…

In the race to fill the seat vacated by President Trump’s budget director, Republican real estate developer Ralph Norman on Tuesday beat his Democratic opponent in South Carolina’s 5th congressional district.

Rolling out the Trump administration's formal 2018 budget, acting Pentagon comptroller John Roth confessed that Defense secretary James Mattis "hasn't spent one moment" looking beyond the coming budget year. But even a cursory glance at the plan makes one wonder whether he paid much attention to…

Rolling out the Trump administration's formal 2018 budget, acting Pentagon comptroller John Roth confessed that Defense secretary James Mattis "hasn't spent one moment" looking beyond the coming budget year. But even a cursory glance at the plan makes one wonder whether he paid much attention to…

Donald Trump's first budget request does not propose fixing the two major entitlement programs, Social Security retirement and Medicare. But as Trump's director of the Office of Management and Budget testified Wednesday, the White House's proposal could be the last balanced budget request to not…

Today on the Daily Standard podcast, senior writer Michael Warren breaks down President Trump's budget proposal.

Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, will defend the White House's budget request in front of the respective congressional committees Wednesday and Thursday. The administration's goal on Capitol Hill this week, according to a White House source, is two-fold: to make a…

Several Republican senators reacted to President Trump's budget request Tuesday by highlighting just 0.0001 percent of its spending.

Committee chairs in Congress look at White House budget proposals with something between indifference and disdain. Congress, not the White House, writes the budget, or so the thinking goes. So why, besides the law mandating he submit one, does a president spend so much time and energy crafting a…

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Michael Warren on President Trump's "America First" budget proposal.

Over the weekend, a personnel dispute within the National Security Council between the national security advisor, H.R. McMaster, and senior White House aides Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon was eventually brought to President Trump himself. As Politico reported Tuesday evening, Trump overruled…

The Congressional Budget Office is finally out with its analysis of the Trump-backed American Health Care Act, and the results are, well, not great, Bob! The big headline, and the big headache for the White House, is the estimate that in less than a decade 24 million fewer people would have…

South Carolina representative Mick Mulvaney was confirmed to lead the Office of Management and Budget on Thursday morning by a razor-thin 51-49 vote, overcoming the opposition of fellow Republican John McCain.