Former SC congressman, Trump aide Mick Mulvaney hired by CBS

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Mick Mulvaney, then the acting White House Chief of Staff, looks on as President Donald Trump hosted the Clemson Tigers football team at the White House in Washington, Jan. 14, 2019. Sarah Silbiger New York Times file photo

Mick Mulvaney, a former South Carolina congressman and once a top aide to former President Donald Trump, is working as a contributor for CBS News.

Political website The Hill reported that Mulvaney has been hired by the network and “will appear as a political analyst across its various platforms and shows.” He appeared Tuesday on CBS ‘streaming service, where he talked about President Joe Biden’s budget proposal.

From 2011 through early 2017, Republican Mulvaney represented South Carolina’s Fifth District in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Fifth District includes all of Union, Chester, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Lancaster, and York counties, and portions of Newberry, Spartanburg, and Sumter counties.

Mulvaney exited his House seat and went to work for the Trump administration, as the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and then as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

He later went on to become Trump’s acting chief of staff from January 2019 until March 2020. After that he was named to the US Special Envoy to Northern Ireland.

More recently, Mulvaney made headlines in South Carolina after a reported text message exchange between him and Republican U.S. House candidate Katie Arrington, who is trying to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace in the First District. In the texts, Arrington twice called Mick Mulvaney a “piece of s—” after he told a national news outlet she was “not the best candidate by any stretch of the imagination.” Mulvaney has endorsed Mace in that Republican primary. Trump, meanwhile, has endorsed Arrington in the race.

In its piece about Mulvaney’s work for CBS, The Hill notes the network “has been beefing up its political coverage in the run-up to the fall’s midterm elections.”

Chris Trainor has been working for newspapers in South Carolina for more than 17 years, including previous stops at the (Greenwood) Index-Journal and the (Columbia) Free Times. He is the winner of numerous South Carolina Press Association awards, including honors in column writing, government beat reporting, profile writing, food writing, election coverage and more.

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