White House budget director Mick Mulvaney Mick MulvaneyOn The Money: House panel pulls Powell into partisan battles | New York considers hiking taxes on the rich | Treasury: Trump's payroll tax deferral won't hurt Social Security Blockchain trade group names Mick Mulvaney to board Mick Mulvaney to start hedge fund MORE is reportedly asking the Trump administration to protect a South Carolina electronics company that plans to halt operations after being adversely impacted by tariffs.

Mulvaney has made personal pleas to administration officials with the hope of protecting the television assembly plant Element Electronics in the state he represented as a Congressman, according to McClatchy DC.

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Element Electronics announced last week that it was ceasing operations after President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE's tariffs on goods imported from China made them too expensive.

The Office of Management and Budget did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill. It told McClatchy that the office does "not comment on internal deliberative processes.”

South Carolina State Sen. Mike Fanning (D) told the news organization that Mulvaney's involvement in trying to prevent Element's potential shuttering is well known.

“I know that he is actively pleading on our behalf, because people we’ve talked to in D.C., they say, ‘Yes, yes, yes, we’ve already heard this from Mick Mulvaney,’” Fanning told McClatchy.

The news site reported that Fanning talked with Mulvaney the day after Element announced it would halt operations.

He added that a coalition of South Carolina elected officials is planning to file a formal appeal to the U.S. Department of Commerce that will ask for Trump to exclude a specific television assembly component from being hit by the president's tariffs, according to McClatchy.

Mulvaney, who represented South Carolina's 5th Congressional district from 2011-2017, has close ties to Element, McClatchy reported. While he was not responsible for the plant's arrival in Winnsboro, South Carolina, he reportedly became close with Element President Michael O’Shaughnessy.

The news about Mulvaney's requests to the Trump administration comes as Trump's tariffs against countries like China cause considerable damage to certain U.S. industries.