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Mick Mulvaney's Unpaid Taxes

Donald Trump’s nominee for budget director disclosed to the Senate that he failed to pay taxes for a household employee in the early 2000s.
Source: Harry Hamburg / AP

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be his White House budget chief has a tax problem.

Representative Mick Mulvaney, the nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget, told a Senate committee that he had failed to pay more than $15,000 intaxes for a household employee in the early 2000s. The voluntary disclosure came in response to a query that has

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