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.
The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast gets ready for a big week in politics. South Carolina Senator Tim Scott officially kicked off his presidential campaign in North Charleston Monday morning. We also expect the long-teased Ron DeSantis presidential campaign to become a reality this week. And, according to the Treasury Department we are just a week or so away from a possible default on the nation’s debt. National politics reporter at the AP Meg Kinnard and Data Columnist at the Washington Post join the crew to weigh in.
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