At present, former South Carolina Representative Mick Mulavney is holding down two jobs in the Trump administration: one as the White House’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, and another as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a role he‘s held since 2017. In the first gig, he‘s been best known for a $2 trillion math error. In the second, he’s worked to systematically destroy the bureau he’s been tasked with running. And apparently he’d now like to take his talents to a larger platform! Politico reports that amidst chatter that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will be put out to pasture, as part of a shake-up that could see the departures of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Chief of Staff John Kelly as well, Mulvaney has “begun speaking openly about his desire for the Commerce job.” After expressing an interest in Kelly’s job over the summer, Mulvaney has reportedly “abandoned that ambition and told allies and other officials that he is now interested in succeeding Ross.”

At least outwardly, Ross appears to believe that his job is secure, telling the audience at a Yahoo! Finance event earlier this month, “I’ll serve as long as the president wants and I have no indication to the contrary.” But in private, it seems he’s a little less confident—as one Republican told my colleague Gabriel Sherman this week, Ross has “told people he’s afraid to visit the White House because he doesn’t want to be fired.” However, while he’s known for falling asleep in meetings and being humiliated in public by Trump on numerous occasions, Ross does have one thing going for him that Mulvaney (and much of the rest of the Cabinet) do not: a membership at Mar-a-Lago, which everyone knows counts for a lot:

Ross and his wife, Hilary, are also among the few top Trump officials to really settle into Washington. Unlike Gary Cohn, Trump’s former top economic official—who stayed at the Four Seasons hotel on weeknights and returned to New York for weekends—Ross bought a $12 million house in the tony neighborhood of Massachusetts Avenue Heights, where his wife is known for throwing elaborate dinners and parties.