EXCLUSIVE–Mick Mulvaney: Senate Will Not Do an Omnibus Bill This Year

The U.S. Senate is going to abandon the omnibus appropriations bill this year in favor of individual spending bills to fund the government, according to Mick Mulvaney. Mulvaney, who is the director of the Office of Management and Budget, told host Alex Marlow of Breitbart News Daily on Sirius XM Wednesday that Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell plans to pass individual spending bills this summer rather than group them together in a massive omnibus bill. “He doesn’t want a Senate ombnibus. He wants to send the president a package of smaller bills,” Mulvaney said. This year the House and Senate passed a massive $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill, and the president signed it, avoiding a government shutdown that would have taken place if a law authorizing spending were not in place by March 23. Conservatives deplored the bill’s huge increases in spending and lack of transparency in the process. For many of the president’s supporters, the bill marked a low point for the administration. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat, celebrated its passage as a victory for the spending priorities of the Democratic party. President Trump himself was sharply critical of the bill, even as he signed it. “I