But as he prepares to testify before two congressional committees on Wednesday and Thursday, he is likely to get questioned about the big salaries approved for the higher political appointees in the Bureau he once wanted to abolish and whose operating costs have promised to cut.
At least eight non-career employees were hired with Mulvaney took the post in November 2017. Five of the eight newcomers earn an annual salary that exceeds the amount available to the majority of political appointees that are in 2018 is $164,200, according to the personnel management.
Salaries of new employees’ are permitted in accordance with the provisions of the Agency because the Federal reserve system that is running the bankruptcy, shall be exempt from OPM wage scales, that is, it can pay some appointees more than the maximum salary of ORM. As a Congressman, Mulvaney complained, as the structure of the bankruptcy in an independent Agency, operating under the Board of governors of the Federal reserve system — allows for such unique events.
Aaron P. Bernstein/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRepresentative Mick Mulvaney, office of management and budget nominee Director testifies to the Senate State Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., Jan. 24 2017,.
Mulvaney chief of staff of bankruptcy, Kirsten Sutton Mork, is $259,500 a year, according to the April letter Mulvaney has written to Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-mass. in response to a request from her office for information about the staff. This is 22 percent more than the salary of her predecessor, Leandro English, who earns $212,324 in the same role, according to the Senate homeland security and governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, who asked her to pay records.
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Three other political appointees hired Mulvaney also earn the same amount as Mork, in a letter Mulvaney.
These revelations about lavish salaries for workers in bankruptcy clash with the previously stated goals for the Bureau Mulvaney and his tea party past. In January, he wrote, as part of the mandatory quarterly inquiries to the office of the fed that he will need $0 in the second quarter of 2018.
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“This request – or lack thereof – will serve to reduce the Federal budget deficit in the amount that the Bureau may be offered under different leadership,” he wrote. “Men and women in the Bureau are proud to contribute to be responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars”.
Mulvaney also took bankruptcy repeatedly as a member of Congress, including co-author of legislation that would completely eliminate the Bureau. In 2014, he was quoted as calling the bankruptcy a “wonderful example of how a bureaucracy will function if it has no responsibility to anybody,” noting that Congress has no oversight of the Bureau.
He added that “some of us” would like to unsubscribe from the Agency and suggested that to bring more transparency in the organization.
In bankruptcy, accused the predecessor Mulvaney in the role of Director Rob Cordray, the implementation of policies concerning salaries for senior management bankruptcy. The representative also imposes a responsibility on Congress to change the practice to pay the Bureau.
“The acting Director of Mulvaney would be happy to work with members of Congress on legislative changes to the Bureau, which will examine the structure and practices of the Bureau of compensation,” said the spokesman.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on budget Mike Enzi presented last month a bill that would rein in wages available bankruptcy employees. The representative Enzi have not yet responded to requests for comment.
The cordray is now running for Governor in Ohio. His campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
Since joining the trump administration, Mulvaney had to defend a policy that would have been anathema to him as one of the founders of the conservative, anti-spending house Freedom of Assembly – something ABC White house correspondent Jon Karl asked him about when Mulvaney defended the budget-busting $1.3 billion omnibus spending bill last month.
“There will be a lot of people who will vote against this on a bunch of different reasons,” he said, neglecting to mention that he may have been one of them if he’s not in charge of the President’s budget.
Mulvaney plans to speak to both the house financial services and Senate banking Committee.
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