Office of Management & Budget Director Mick Mulvaney gave an intricate and often eccentric explanation of redundancy and overlap in federal bureaucracy in a presentation that stunned the president and the press.
He criticized the "Byzantine nature" by which the government regulates, creating headaches for business owners, employees and taxpayers.
"If you have a cheese pizza, it's governed by the Food & Drug Administration. If you put a pepperoni on it, it's governed by the [Department of Agriculture]," he said.
"If you have a [live] chicken, it's governed by the USDA. If that chicken lays an egg, it's governed by the FDA, but if you break the egg and make an omelette, that's again governed by the USDA."
He said that a hot dog is regulated simultaneously by two government agencies and said that one of the most intricate and "bizarre" cases of regulations involves saltwater fish.
Mulvaney said that a salmon in the ocean is governed by the Department of Commerce, but that when the salmon is swimming upstream into freshwater where it breeds, it is governed by Ryan Zinke and the Department of the Interior.
On its way to the breeding grounds, it encounters a fish ladder -- a device used to help fish navigate waterfalls and other impediments -- that is governed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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