He told a conference of bankers that as a congressman he granted meetings only to lobbyists who had contributed to his campaigns. “We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress,” Mulvaney told the American Bankers Association, according to the New York Times's Glenn Thrush. “If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. The comments could prove problematic for Mulvaney and his apparently rising stock in the White House. “It belongs to the American people.”It's difficult to think of a more stereotypically swampy arrangement than what Mulvaney described Tuesday.

Source: Washington Post April 25, 2018 12:27 UTC