Trump's Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said Tuesday afternoon in apress conference that President Trump's 2018 budget was design with "the people actually paying the bills" in mind: taxpayers.



"We looked at this budget through the eyes of the people actually paying the bills," he said. "Compassion has to be on both sides of this equation. Yes, you have to have compasion for folks who are receiving the federal funds, but also you have to have compassion for those who are paying it."



He added: "We're not going to measure compassion by the amount of money we spend, but by the number of people we help."