Mick Mulvaney apologizes for criticizing CBO employee

Published June 2, 2017 11:24pm ET



Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney apologized on Friday for criticizing an employee of the Congressional Budget Office who issued a budget score of the GOP’s healthcare bill that he called “absurd.”

Mulvaney told the Washington Examiner that the days of using the CBO to fairly score legislation has “probably come and gone.”

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