Mick Mulvaney, popular vote loser Donald Trump's current Office of Management and Budget director, squatter at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and would-be chief of staff (if he can just dislodge John Kelly), raised plenty of eyebrows earlier this week when he proudly declared to a bankers' association that he was a pay-to-play congressman before joining the administration. “If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money,“ he said. “I didn’t talk to you. If you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.”
Guess who he is still talking to.
[A]ccording to his internal schedule, he’s continued taking meetings with lobbyists and companies who financed his past political campaigns.
At least eight registered lobbyists and six other executives who donated to Mulvaney’s congressional campaigns—or whose companies’ political action committees did the same—got an audience with the South Carolina Republican when he landed atop the Office of Management and Budget. That’s according to a Daily Beast analysis of campaign finance records, lobbying disclosure forms, and OMB visitor logs dating from January 2017 through September 2017. […]
The lobbyists who gave to Mulvaney, and who subsequently scored meetings with him at OMB, represented a wide array of companies, many with interests before federal agencies over whose structure and finances the White House budget office holds considerable sway.
We've seen the effects of this already at the CFPB. The predatory lenders who contributed some $60,000 to Mulvaney's campaigns have seen the investigations against them dropped. That's meant consumers losing out on $60 million in compensation.
He's not even trying to hide the fact that he's bought—and therefore selling the American people out.