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Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Im the director for the center for free markets and regulatory reform. The Heritage Foundation. I would ask for those of you in the audience to please make that last little check now of your cell phones, to make sure that they wont interrupt proceedings today. And we will get started right now. The event today is really designed to celebrate the special report called a Government Policies that hurt the poor and how to address them. The United States is a very compassionate country and we have an awful lot of government activities that affect poorer members of our population in one way or the other. We have welfare programs, welfare spending of one kind or another that adds up to well over a trillion dollars tuesdays. ....
Is like to work with the president. This is 30 minutes. Mulvaney, what is the job of budget director . Mr. Mulvaney its the greatest job no one has ever heard of. The description of it is if you live outside of the beltway, you have never heard of omb, if you live inside the beltway, you have no idea what it does. It is sort of the there is a bunch of different ways to describe it. Some people describe it as where we are the policy police for the president. We make sure other parts of the executive branch are following through on the president s policy. The way we do that is we actually serve as a central junction box for the government. Every dollar that goes from to the agencys flows through this office. Agencies flows through this office. Every regulation that comes from the agency ends up coming through this office. We handle procurement for the federal government. We handle a lot of personnel issues. A lot of i. T. Issues. We work with the inspectors general of all of the agencies ....
Is like to work with the president. This is 30 minutes. Mulvaney, what is the job of budget director . Mr. Mulvaney its the greatest job no one has ever heard of. The description of it is if you live outside of the beltway, you have never heard of omb, if you live inside the beltway, you have no idea what it does. It is sort of the there is a bunch of different ways to describe it. Some people describe it as where we are the policy police for the president. We make sure other parts of the executive branch are following through on the president s policy. The way we do that is we actually serve as a central junction box for the government. Every dollar that goes from to the agencys flows through this office. Agencies flows through this office. Every regulation that comes from the agency ends up coming through this office. We handle procurement for the federal government. We handle a lot of personnel issues. A lot of i. T. Issues. We work with the inspectors general of all of the agencies ....
Is like to work with the president. This is 30 minutes. Mulvaney, what is the job of budget director . Mr. Mulvaney its the greatest job no one has ever heard of. The description of it is if you live outside of the beltway, you have never heard of omb, if you live inside the beltway, you have no idea what it does. It is sort of the there is a bunch of different ways to describe it. Some people describe it as where we are the policy police for the president. We make sure other parts of the executive branch are following through on the president s policy. The way we do that is we actually serve as a central junction box for the government. Every dollar that goes from to the agencys flows through this office. Agencies flows through this office. Every regulation that comes from the agency ends up coming through this office. We handle procurement for the federal government. We handle a lot of personnel issues. A lot of i. T. Issues. We work with the inspectors general of all of the agencies ....
Good morning and welcome to the Heritage Foundation. I am the director of the center for free markets and regulatory reform. Here at the Heritage Foundation. I ask for you please, those in the audience to please make that last little check on your cell phone to make sure that they will not interrupt the proceedings today. And we will get started right now. The event today is really designed to celebrate the publication of a new heritage special report called Big Government policies that hurt the poor. And how to address them. United states is a very compassionate country and you have an awful lot of government activities that affect poor members of the population and in one way or another. We have welfare programs, welfare spending at one time or another that adds up to well over 1 trillion. That can be in thin ....