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So you ran OMB before, and you don't have to comment on this, it sounds like you are very likely to run OMB again.

Tell us what OMB is, for those who aren't from Washington, what it does

and what you would do with it. So OMB is the nerve center of the federal government, particularly

the executive branch. So it has the ability to turn on and off any spending within the Office

of Management and Budget. Office of Management and

Budget. It has the ability to turn off the spending that's going on at the agencies. It has all the

regulations coming through it to assess whether it's good or bad or too expensive or it could be

done a different way or what does the president think? And then all of government execution.

So anytime you have cabinet, executive branches conflicting with each other or working together

on something, for instance, you know, the wall. The president wanted to fund the wall.

We at OMB gave him a plan to be able to go and fund the wall through money that was the Department of Defense

and to use that because Congress wouldn't give him the ordinary money at the Department of Homeland Security.

So it really is. Presidents use OMB to tame the bureaucracy, the administrative state.

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