Mick Mulvaney is the most overly employed person in Washington, and it looks like he wants that to change.
Mulvaney is the acting White House chief of staff, stepping in after John Kelly left the Trump administration last month. Late last year, while holding down two jobs — he was leading the Office of Management and Budget and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — Mulvaney approached a senior official at the University of South Carolina and asked about becoming the school's president, four people familiar with the matter told The New York Times.
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