Acting White House Chief of Staff 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 insisted Sunday that the White House takes election security seriously, saying the executive branch is “doing everything necessary” ahead of 2020.

Asked by CBS’ Margaret Brennan about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance On The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline The Hill's Campaign Report: Trump faces backlash after not committing to peaceful transition of power MORE’s (R) refusal to allow a vote on a bipartisan election security bill, Mulvaney dismissed the measure as unnecessary, calling it “a bill that came up in the last week because the Democrats saw an opportunity coming out of [special counsel Robert] Mueller” testifying before two House committees.

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“This administration has worked with every single state… we’ve met with every single presidential campaign to go over how to prepare against and prevent foreign intervention into the 2020 elections,” Mulvaney added. “The bills from this week were simply showmanship and that’s why they failed.”

Brennan cited an exchange between Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich PutinPutin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Navalny released from hospital after suspected poisoning Ex-Trump national security adviser says US leaders 'making it easy for Putin' to meddle MORE in which Trump jokingly warned Putin not to interfere in the 2020 presidential election to press Mulvaney on whether Trump took election meddling seriously.

“Judge us by the actions,” Mulvaney responded, adding “we think we’re taking tremendous steps.”