South Carolina Representative Mike Mulvaney, President Trump's nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget has a Zoe problem. What is a Zoe problem? That is an historical reference to Zoe Baird, President Clinton's first Attorney General Nominee in 1993. She did not even get a vote on the Senate floor because she had failed to pay taxes on one of her employees. The second person President Clinton considered for Attorney General, Kimba Wood, had a similar problem and did not even get through the vetting process. Former Senate Majority/Minority Leader Tom Daschle had to withdraw as President Obama's first nominee for Health and Human Services because he failed to pay taxes on one of his employees.
Well Representative Mulvaney has a similar issue because he did not pay taxes on the baby sitter for his and his wife's triplets for several years. It is amazing that Republicans are not petitioning President Trump to pull this nomination. Along with the flood of executive orders this week, Republicans will forgive sins as long as it is one of their own. Call them out for this hypocrisy. Democratic Senators need to unite and not give Representative Mulvaney any one of their 48 votes. They can not let this slide.
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