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The Debt Limit

The Debt Limit

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Nick Anderson
Jan 20, 2023
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Kevin McCarthy knows that a failure to raise the debt limit will bring catastrophic consequences to the economy and to American families. But he thinks he can appease the rabid, right-wing Freedom Caucus so he can hang on to his job, and someone else will blink. But this is a dangerous game of chicken, and that gun isn't loaded with blanks

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