to head up the office of management and budget, he explained why he didn t pay $15,000 in taxes for a household nanny. and if it was anybody other than senate republicans in control of this process, these cabinet nominees would be having a hard time getting confirmed. tax issues for household help? that has scuttled a lot of nominations in the past. but instead because these particular republicans are in control and because democrats are not in lockstep opposition to these nominees, it s starting to look like the entire cabinet will get confirmed. and if they do, it won t only be the richest cabinet in history, it will be a throwback in terms of diversity. this will be the first cabinet in the 1980s that has nobody that is latino serving in any capacity. president obama appointed the most diverse cabinet the country has ever seen. one of its members, labor secretary tom perez, is now in the running for a different job.
today the journal dropped the latest in a seemingly endless parade of stories concerning questionable stock trades by the president s pick to run health and human services, congressman time price a lot of discussion on the confirmation hearing. we ll have more on that later in the show. meanwhile, the president s pick to head up the office of management and budget, he explained why he didn t pay $15,000 in taxes for a household nanny. and if it was anybody other than senate republicans in control of this process, these cabinet nominees would be having a hard time getting confirmed. tax issues for household help? that has scuttled a lot of nominations in the past. but instead because these particular republicans are in control and because democrats are not in lockstep opposition to these nominees, it s starting to look like the entire cabinet will get confirmed. and if they do, it won t only be the richest cabinet in history, it will be a throwback in terms
he may have a legal conflict thanks to his prior legal work on behalf of a foreign government. that may legally disqualify him from holding the trade job. under a 1995 law that was right there on the books for anybody to see if anybody had checked, if anybody had vetted him. today the journal dropped the latest in a seemingly endless parade of stories concerning questionable stock trades by the president s pick to run health and human services, congressman time price a lot of discussion on the confirmation hearing. we ll have more on that later in the show. meanwhile, the president s pick to head up the office of management and budget, he explained why he didn t pay $15,000 in taxes for a household nanny. and if it was anybody other than senate republicans in control of this process, these cabinet nominees would be having a hard time getting confirmed. tax issues for household help? that has scuttled a lot of nominations in the past. but instead because these
talked to general flynn about this again last night, one call talked about four subjects, one was the loss of life that occurred in the plane crash that took their military choir, two was christmas and holiday greetings, three was to talk about a conference in syria on isis, and four was to set up to talk about after the inauguration setting up a call between president putin and president trump. the second call came, i think it s now three days ago, that was to say once he gets into office, can we set up that call? and the standards set by president obama s nominees is likely to come up today as the senate budget committee hears testimony from congressman nick mulvaney on his nomination of office as budget director. they acknowledged that he failed to pay $15,000 in taxes for his household nanny. something chuck schumer is pulling on.