Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney listens as President Trump speaks with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in the Oval Office on March 19. Mulvaney and the White House declined to make him available for an interview. One White House official described Mulvaney as “building an empire for the right wing.”He has helped install more than a dozen ideologically aligned advisers in the West Wing since his December hiring. Policy and spending decisions are now made by the White House and dictated to Cabinet agencies, instead of vice versa. The same month, the White House proposed a rollback of Obama-era rules that banned discrimination against transgender medical patients.

Source: Washington Post July 14, 2019 21:31 UTC