Dodging the Debt Ceiling ft. Ben Ritz
The New Liberal Podcast
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The Budget Control Act and the Debt Limit
2011 was the first big time that somebody said, we might actually just vote no. We might actually just crash the ship if we don't get what we want. So it resolved through two things. They would give President Obama the ability to raise the debt limit additional times subject to a vote of disapproval from Congress. And they paired that with some pretty deep spending cuts.
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