Mulvaney Gets Salty When Burnett Asks Why He Wanted a Clean Debt Ceiling Raise in 2019 But Not Now: 'That's How Washington Works'

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Mulvaney Gets Salty When Burnett Asks Why He Wanted a Clean Debt Ceiling Raise in 2019 But Not Now: 'That's How Washington Works'

Mick Mulvaney got defensive after Erin Burnett asked why he once supported a clean debt ceiling raise while working in the Trump administration, but not now. The U.S. hit its self-imposed debt limit on Thursday, though the Department of the Treasury is taking measures to fulfill the country’s debt obligations. Those moves will exhaust sometime around early June. If Congress doesn’t raise the debt limit by then, the U.S. will default on its loan …