President Donald Trump (Trump) has been in office for four years, from trade wars to technology wars, from the Chinese Communist Party virus (Wuhan pneumonia) to Democratic election fraud, numerous challenges have arisen, how can the President and the White House cope? Former White House chief economist writes a book that reveals the inside story of his experience in the Trump White House.
Recently, Chinese-American entrepreneur, author, speaker, and CFA Helen Raleigh shared a review of her book with The Federalist. You’re Hired, a book by Casey Mulligan, former chief economist of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) and professor of economics at the University of Chicago.
According to Rowley, Mulligan’s book is a refreshing depiction of a president who is nothing like what the mainstream media portrays, and a friendly, efficient, and prolific White House.
A Heartfelt Reading of Obama’s Health Care Reform Mulligan Hired by White House
Rowley describes Mulligan’s national attention as a result of a series of articles he wrote for the Wall Street Journal, such as “How Obamacare Undermines the Virtues of Work” and “The Myth of Obamacare Affordability,” which exposed the fallacies of Obamacare at an early stage.
Few economists at the time had bothered to do an economic analysis of the impact of Obamacare on the U.S. economy and consumer behavior. Mulligan’s analysis eventually persuaded the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and admitted that Obamacare would harm U.S. economic growth and jobs, even though this occurred four years after Obamacare became law.
Between July 2018 and June 2019, Mulligan was hired by the White House to serve as chief economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), a position that allowed him to see President Trump, White House staff, and the president’s cabinet work together to fulfill the president’s campaign promises and develop policy solutions.
In his book, Mulligan also mentions his strengths in serving President Trump and the White House. He stated that he had suggested adding a topic to the President’s State of the Union address, the fact that Medicare for All would end private health insurance. Many intelligent people in the White House questioned this topic, which seemed too radical, but Mulligan found that almost no one bothered to read the entire bill. So, Mulligan began carrying Section 107 of the Medicare for All bill around in his pocket, and pulled it out several times to convince skeptics. This section explicitly prohibits private health insurance.
Debunking the Trump Twitter Myth: Spreading the Word Wisely
Mulligan says that what he saw and experienced in the White House was “markedly different” from his expectations and conventional wisdom. In his book, he defends several claims against the president and the White House. For example, 72 percent of voters believe the president spends too much time on Twitter.
Mulligan argues that Twitter is an effective tool for President Trump’s multiple purposes, and that the president sometimes uses Twitter to test policy ideas with the American public. Depending on public reaction and media coverage, Trump can decide to turn it into actual policy, tweak it before launching it, or shelve it altogether.
Trump also uses Twitter to bypass a hostile mainstream media to spread his accomplishments and amplify his message, while the mainstream media is more interested in blaming him for everything that is wrong than mentioning his accomplishments. Mulligan said that Trump often intentionally exaggerates in his tweets, especially when talking about his administration’s accomplishments, so that “the media might be ‘happy’ to correct him, unwittingly spreading the presidential accomplishments that will inevitably be found.
There is no doubt that Twitter has given Trump the kind of influence he never had from the corporate media. In his book, Mulligan cites a Gallup study that found that three-quarters of U.S. adults, or 190 million Americans, “see, hear, or read” “a lot” or “a fair amount” of “tweets. “Tweets about @realdonaldtrump. Therefore, it is important for Trump to maintain a constant presence on Twitter and “the image of a single U.S. president tweeting randomly on his phone is inaccurate.”
Mulligan revealed that the president has a social media team, which consists of himself and Dan Scavino. According to Mulligan, Trump and Scavino often collaborate on tweets, and “tweets originating from advisers are often censored.”
Running Efficiently More People in the White House More People Benefit
The American people have been repeatedly told by the mainstream media that the Trump White House is chaotic and ineffective, with a demoralized staff that does nothing and prefers to betray its friends. Mulligan devotes an entire chapter to proving that his experience of the Trump White House is the exact opposite; that it is “collaborative, predictable, and prolific.
Mulligan writes that almost everyone he worked with was friendly and courteous, including the president. In contrast to many of his Twitter performances, he is “often polite and friendly (not to mention funny) in his personal relationships.
In his book, Mulligan notes that Trump’s White House is a well-oiled machine, prolific and efficient. For example, Mulligan notes that the Council of Economic Advisers is usually months ahead of “the President and his Cabinet’s requests” and has “published some three million words (the equivalent of fourteen 500-page textbooks) in its first two years,” including “Seventeen supply and demand analyses in the first three presidential economic reports, compared to one for the Obama administration and eight for all other presidents combined.”
In terms of hiring, Mulligan doesn’t believe the White House staff has a high turnover rate. He said people leave the White House once they do the job they are set to do or what their skill set allows them to do. He shared several examples, including his own.
In his book, he writes, “In my own case, 12 months was enough to complete 8 or 10 projects where my skills were particularly applicable. These same projects could easily be delayed for three to four years, but that would be wasteful and prevent other economists from benefiting from the historical opportunity of President Trump’s CEA tenure.”
She believes that President Trump has accomplished great things during his four years in office, bringing unemployment in the United States to historic lows and achieving a breakthrough peace agreement in the Middle East.
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