WASHINGTON _ Mick Mulvaney, the White House budget director, will be President Donald Trump's acting chief of staff until Trump finds a permanent replacement for the position.
Mulvaney told friends this week that he was "not interested in chief of staff."
"He has been saying for almost two months that he would be more interested in something like Commerce or Treasury if that's where the president needed him," a person close to Mulvaney said.
A senior administration official said Friday that "there's no time limit" for how long Mulvaney will remain acting chief of staff. "He got picked because the president liked him, they get along," the official said, citing Mulvaney's time as a South Carolina congressman. "He knows Congress, he knows Capitol Hill."
Mulvaney, a fiscal conservative who was a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus, he joined Trump's staff and promptly began to pitch his former colleagues on spending bills he never would have supported as a congressman.
Mulvaney grew up in Charlotte, N.C., and graduated from Charlotte Catholic High School. He graduated from law school at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1992 and owned a real estate business in Charlotte.
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(Emma Dumain and Brian Murphy contributed to this report.)
