White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney says he's finished with electoral politics.

"I'm never going back," Mulvaney told The Washington Examiner.

"I don't go to fundraisers. I don't read with third-graders. I don't go to ribbon cuttings. I liked all that stuff but, at the end of the day, it doesn't really change the direction of the country."

He also brushed off criticism that he appears to be fighting losing battles.

"I'm like, yeah, but I'm losing at the very highest level. I used to lose in the Tortilla Coast basement," he said.

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"Now I am losing in the Oval Office from time to time, but that's fine."

Mulvaney previously served as a congressman from South Carolina before being tapped to head the Office of Management and Budget.

He said when he first got to Washington and "found out what this office was, I thought that this sounds like the coolest job in Washington."

"If you are a policy wonk and a government junkie, this is the best job ever," he told The Examiner, "and it turned out that it's everything I expected it to be."