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The debt ceiling’s threat to America

Explain It to Me

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The White House's Overruling of Attorney Client Privilege

Budget chair John yarmoth has said that he doesn't think they have the time before october eighteenth, when we're set to hit the debt limit. The only reason that they wouldn't in the current circumstances, just like timing. Is there some kind of third path that doesn't go through democrats acceding to an unreasonable time line to try to take a congressional solution? Like minting a trillion dollar coin is certainly a creative work around. But are there other ways that the federal government can think its way out of this?

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