Acting White House chief of saff Mick Mulvaney has been complaining about Washington’s reliance on credit since winning an upstate South Carolina congressional seat in 2010.

It still keeps him awake at night, Mulvaney said at a conference organized by the economic think tank Milken Institute earlier this month. Since he took office, the U.S. government’s debt has increased 39% to $22 trillion.

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