What is the US debt ceiling and what would happen if it is not raised?
Joe Biden and the House Republican speaker, Kevin McCarthy, have reached a deal “in principle” to raise the federal government’s $31.4tn debt ceiling, potentially averting an economically destabilising default on 5 June. With any new agreement still required to pass through a divided Congress, the…
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