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Mick Mulvaney: “We believe the 2013 government shutdown was good policy.”

On the recordJanuary 23, 2017
We believe the 2013 government shutdown was good policy.
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Mick Mulvaney
Republican · South Carolina

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Mulvaney supports the 2013 government shutdown as a policy decision.

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