Washington Post writer Catherine Rampell predicts that Trump’s choice of hardline right winger Mick Mulvaney for director of the Office of Management and Budget is the worst appointment yet. He is an ideologue who doesn’t see any reason for federal spending. She believes that Mulvany might set off a global economic crisis. I can tell you from my own brief experience in the federal government that OMB is the ultimate decider on every spending decision.

 

She writes:

 

Over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump tapped Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) to be his director of the Office of Management and Budget. This Cabinet-level post is responsible for producing the federal budget, overseeing and evaluating executive branch agencies and otherwise advising the president on fiscal matters. It’s a position with tremendous, far-reaching power, even if the public doesn’t pay much attention to it.

 

Which is why it’s so concerning that Trump chose Mulvaney, who seems poised to help Trump ignite another worldwide financial crisis.

 

Mulvaney was first elected to Congress in 2010 as part of the anti-government, tea party wave. A founding member of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, he is among Congress’s most committed fiscal hawks. He has repeatedly voted against his own party’s budget proposals because they were insufficiently conservative.

 

Mulvaney, like Trump’s other cabinet picks, is inexperienced and unqualified. His strong point of view is at odds with Trump’s promises.

 

The world must be watching in amazement as our inexperienced and ignorant new president fills out his team with equally inexperienced and ignorant cabinet leaders.

 

I think that most of these choices were made by Mike Pence, who previously served in Congress. Trump very likely never heard of any of the people he has chosen; they are not the type likely to dine at the 21 Club in Manhattan or to hobnob with the celebrity culture. Pence knows them through his evangelical, hard-right connections.