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Article snippet: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said that MORE’s budget proposal if he were still in Congress after the OMB director suggested he would not during a Senate hearing on Tuesday. Mulvaney, who was on Capitol Hill to defend the proposal, said he “probably would have found enough shortcomings” in the document to vote against it if he were still a congressman. But the OMB said Mulvaney was referring to a spending cap deal reached last week, not the actual Trump budget. During the Senate Budget Committee’s hearing on Tuesday, Sen. MORE (D-Wash.) asked Mulvaney if he would have voted for “this budget that you’re presenting.” She noted that Mulvaney said over the weekend that he wouldn’t have voted for the deal Trump signed last week to increase spending caps by about $300 billion over two years. “I can give the same answer I gave on Sunday, which is that as a member of Congress representing the 5th District of South Carolina, I probably would have found enough shortcomings in this to vote against it, as did many members of this committee,” Mulvaney replied. “But I’m the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and my job is to try and fund the president’s priorities, which is exactly what we did.” The comments attracted attention, since it would be highly unusual for an OMB director to criticize the budget he spearheaded. But an OMB spokeswoman claimed that Mulvaney wasn’t talking about Trump’s budget when he replied to Murray. “Just to be clear, Direc... Link to the full article to read more