Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's former chief of staff and current special U.S. envoy to Northern Ireland, has resigned from the Trump administration after the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

According to a Thursday morning report from CNBC, Mulvaney said he called Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday evening to deliver his resignation.
Mulvaney made the remarks on a "Squawk Box" interview.

President Trump announced Friday evening that Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina will be his new White House chief of staff.

Mick Mulvaney, the current acting chief of staff, will be named as the U.S. special envoy for Northern Ireland.

Mr. Meadows, a Freedom Caucus founder, announced earlier this year that he would be retiring from Congress at the end of this term. He was recently made ranking member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The senior U.S. Senate Democrat called on Sunday for the Republican-led chamber to demand testimony from four current and former White House aides in a trial expected early next year on whether to remove President Donald Trump from office.

The White House chief of staff, still “acting” after all these months, should never have been cast in the role of spin doctor.

There he goes again.

White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney insisted he never said the Trump administration expected a quid pro quo between U.S. aid to Ukraine and that Kiev launching investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden during a withering interview on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace.

Mulvaney repeatedly insisted his remarks at a Thursday press conference were taken out of context, saying he never used the "reporters" language of "quid pro quo."

"That’s not what I said. That’s what people said that I said," he told a skeptical Wallace early on in the interview.

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White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney sought to clarify his remarks on Thursday about tying up military aid to Ukraine after critics accused him of admitting to a quid pro quo.

He said the media was “misconstruing” his comments to the press “to advance a biased and political witch hunt against President Trump.”

The White House defense against Democrats’ impeachment inquiry suffered a major blow Thursday with acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s admission that aid for Ukraine was linked to President Trump’s desire for the country to pursue a political probe related to the 2016 election.

The stunning admission marked the first time a White House official had publicly undermined Trump's repeated denials of any quid pro quo. It also coincided with a host of current and former administration officials raising concerns during closed-door testimony about the administration’s Ukraine policy.

Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said at a press conference Thursday that President Trump's desire to push Ukraine to investigate "corruption" related to a conspiracy theory involving the DNC's hacked computer server was part of the reason that military aid was put on hold earlier this year.

Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said on Sunday that Russia did attempt to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
"Yes, Russia did attempt to interfere in our election. There is no question. Let's not lose sight of the fact that it was the previous administration that let that happen," Mulvaney said when asked by Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet the Press" if President Trump accepts the fact that "Russia interfered to benefit him."
Mulvaney's comments come after Trump suggested for the first time last week that Russia helped him get elected.