The Cost of the Debt Ceiling Game of Briarsmanship

Mark Shepherd, the Republican Mayor of Clearfield in Utah: A good outcome is that they raise the debt ceiling with with some restrictions likely on spending. But these are potentially hundreds, if not thousands of sort of mini states of paralysis happening all over the country. That can't be healthy regardless of your politics and it isn't an economic necessity for the United States to continue playing this game of economic brinksmanship," he says. "This needs to be remedied at a pretty permanent level"