Nobody really thinks it's gonna be June 1st. The length of the default would matter like we could go into default and you know People would freak out, but if that is like solved relatively quickly. In kind of the worst case scenarios where we default for a long time I've seen projections of like I think it was like seven or eight million people losing their jobs Like a really deep recession.
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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