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Mick Mulvaney backs down: White House to support ‘clean’ debt ceiling

By Philip Wegmann
Published August 3, 2017 6:52pm ET
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Mick Mulvaney backs down: White House to support ‘clean’ debt ceiling
Mulvaney was supposed to be their guy on the inside, the budget guy balancing the books for once. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) | Jacquelyn Martin

Mick Mulvaney went to the mattresses on the debt ceiling two months ago. He just lost.

President Trump’s fiscally conservative budget director didn’t just admit defeat. Mulvaney endorsed the very idea he’d been fighting against for months.

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