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Trump s former chief of staff Mick Mulvaney resigns
From CNN s Kevin Liptak
Mick Mulvaney, then acting White House chief of staff, listens during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 2, 2020. Kevin Dietsch/UPI/Bloomberg/Getty Images
President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff and current special envoy to Northern Ireland, Mick Mulvaney, has resigned.
He told CNBC in an interview this morning that he called Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last night and resigned. I called Mike Pompeo last night to let him know I was resigning from that. I can’t do it. I can’t stay, Mulvaney said in the interview.