budget cuts at the pentagon. i will vote to oppose congressman mulvaney s nomination because it would be irresponsible to place the future of the defense budget in the hands of a person with such a record and judgment on national security. if this is the beginning, not the end, of the fight to rebuild our military. he also points out president trump has spoken a lot about beefing up the defense department and he thinks mulvaney s long time enthusiasm for defense department cuts conflicts with the president s point of view. mccain also says normally he would give a new president the benefit of the doubt and support their preferred cabinet secretary his opposition is not personal but based on principle. if mull vany is to be confirmed today, it will be by the slimest possible margin, shannon. shannon: do we know how long
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that vote, whether she is confirmed or not within the next few minutes. next up will be congressman nick mulvaney. because democrats used the full 30 hours of debate allowed between confirmations twaoefrben though senator ben carton admitted they won be able to stop any of them. mulvaney can t be sworn in for two days. representative mulvaney is unfortunately an example of a cabinet member that is too far compromised by potential conflict of interest and other ethics challenges. reporter: that kind of talk is not swaying republican senators. mitch mcconnell is imploring his democratic counter part chuck shumer to realize that and change the way he s been doing business for the first three and a half weeks of the trump administration. beginning with representative mulvaney, we can get each of
white house aren t things that donald trump loves does he start vetoing them and saying, no, congress is the obstructionist? remember, for donald trump, the enemy is never the democrats. it s never republicans versus democrats for him. it s me versus mexico, me versus china, me versus congress, me versus the media, me versus these other big institutions. and so the idea that there s never going to be a time when he doesn t decide to try to throw his own republican congress under the bus, i think is a little naive. congressman nick mulvaney says he will move to curb spending spending on social security and medicare if confirmed as the budget director. that goes against the president s procompromises on t campaign trail. steve you described the republican as a extremist holding the purse strings. you say a founding member of the freedom caucus with an almost perfect conservative voting record mr. mulvaney sent his congressional career leading the
anything but a conflict of interest and an abuse of position. reporter: republicans quickly left to price s defense saying he fully complied with the law. does it burn you they want to hold you to a different standard now that you re a nominee than they are as a member? well, we know what s going on here. we do. reporter: price not the only trump nominee in the hot seat. congressman nick mulvaney, trump s choice as budget director, acknowledging he failed to pay taxes on a babysitter for his triplets. it s a mistake that s been made, i now know about it, how do we fix it? reporter: facing criticism from from john mccain for supporting defense spending. the answer is withdrawal all troops from afghanistan? that is crazy.