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

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

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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