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(7/17/19) Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney reportedly told attendees at a recent fundraising retreat in Chicago that he does not attempt to control the President’s tweeting, time or family. Instead, according to the July 15 Washington Post article “‘His own fiefdom’: Mulvaney builds ‘an empire for the right wing’ as Trump’s chief of staff,” he is building his own power base in Washington through a formerly inactive White House office called the Domestic Policy Council. In this week’s “TrumpWatch with Jesse Lent” on WBAI, Lisa Rein, a reporter covering federal agencies and the management of government in the Trump administration for the Washington Post and one of the co-writers of the article, helps break down Mulvaney’s efforts to cultivate his own GOP power base and considers what that could mean for US policy.