Mick Mulvaney: Federal debt is already too high

By Joseph Lawler

Published February 13, 2018 4:56pm ET

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Mick Mulvaney: Federal debt is already too high — "We have too much now, I think," Mick Mulvaney said during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on the White House fiscal year 2019 budget that he unveiled Monday. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) | Andrew Harrer

The federal debt is already too high, Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney testified Tuesday, and is set to head into a “danger zone” in the years ahead.

“We have too much now, I think,” Mulvaney said during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on the White House fiscal year 2019 budget that he unveiled Monday.

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