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Can Tim Scott's Optimism Win Over The GOP?

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The Hastert Rule and the Debt Ceiling

There's this thing called the Hastert rule which isn't a real rule. John Boehner broke it in order to raise the debt ceiling before and that seems to me like the most obvious way that this gets solved legislatively. It's just a question of what it actually ends up being in the package Yeah, God bless American politics vote no hope yes To your point about the default or possible default Do we know about when that would be what it would look like and how voters would react to something like that? You know uncharted territory and who knows what sort of ramifications that would hold.

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