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What The Debt Ceiling And George Santos's Career Have In Common

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Is There a Date Announced?

I don't know if Janet Yellen is going to come out and say like we will default on this date. Because that's also her kind of playing chicken saying like yeah, I'm going to make the US default in favor of paying whatever other expenditure the US might have. So it's just like that guys. It's really making economics accessible. Okay. Back to the politics of all of this. That was fun as a non-Econ podcast to engage in the economics of all of it. But like, what do the parties want? I think we've said spending cuts on the Republican side and nothing just a clean debt limit raise on the Democrat side. What spending exactly do

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