Budget director Mick Mulvaney is displeased with the Smithsonian

Mick Mulvaney.
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Mick Mulvaney always dreamed of becoming director of the Office of Management and Budget. "As soon as I got to Washington and I found out what this office was, I thought, 'This sounds like the coolest job in Washington,'" Mulvaney, who was elected to the House in 2010, told the Washington Examiner in an interview published Monday. Mulvaney said he was attracted to the job because "if you are a policy wonk and a government junkie, this is the best job ever, and it turned out that it's everything I expected it to be."

However, Mulvaney does have one complaint about his dream job:

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