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I give the man points for honesty if not the initiative to do research. Mulvaney admitted that he hasn’t any idea of what raising the debt ceiling would mean for the economy, nor were the senior members forthcoming when asked.
I suppose that there is always a chance that an informed newbie might become a maverick newbie and vote his own conscience if he knew more about a topic, or what the results of a similar policy in the nineties were when Newt Gingrich, future presidential hopeful engineered another expensive shake-down.