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113: NYT Columnist Paul Krugman on The Debt Ceiling

The Al Franken Podcast

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The Debt Ceiling and the Biden Administration

The debt ceiling is a weird artifact with obscure historical roots. It's kind of saying that you can commit to spend a bunch of stuff and then say, well, but actually I won't pay for it. Are we going to need 60 votes in the Senate? If there's any legislative solution, it's going to be in the House.

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