How the 2011 debt ceiling crisis could bring the US to the edge of disaster again
If the 2023 debt ceiling standoff feels familiar, that’s because it is. This Wednesday, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will meet to address a conflict that lawmakers also directly confronted in 2011. That year, much like this one, Republicans had just retaken the House while…
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