The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said Tuesday that Director Mick Mulvaney Mick MulvaneyMick Mulvaney to start hedge fund Fauci says positive White House task force reports don't always match what he hears on the ground Bottom line MORE would vote for President Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE's budget after he suggested at a committee hearing earlier in the day that he would not.

Mulvaney made the remarks to the Senate Budget Committee after Sen. Patty Murray Patricia (Patty) Lynn MurrayTrump health officials grilled over reports of politics in COVID-19 response CDC director pushesback on Caputo claim of 'resistance unit' at agency The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by The Air Line Pilots Association - Pence lauds Harris as 'experienced debater'; Trump, Biden diverge over debate prep MORE (D-Wash.) asked whether he'd back the Trump budget.

Murray first noted that on Monday Mulvaney had said he would have voted against a two-year budget deal reached last week that added $300 billion in new spending.

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"If you were in Congress would you have voted for this budget that you're presenting?" she asked.

"I'll give the same answer I gave on Sunday," Mulvaney said. "Which is, that as a member of Congress representing the 5th district of South Carolina I probably would have found enough shortcomings in this to vote against it."

"But I'm the director of