
Debt Ceiling Countdown: An Explainer
The Dispatch Podcast
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The Treasury Department's Plan to Push Extraordinary Measures to Their Limit
I've followed congressional negotiations enough to know like things just end up taking longer than everyone says they're going to, even when something eventually passes. I would not count on that at all, because the use of extraordinary measures was not common prior to 2011. And also as we're now a week out, and she's still saying June 1st, if we get to June 3rd and haven't defaulted, I think it is more likely due to dumb luck than the Treasury pulling a rabbit from their hat.
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