Every Time Congress Raised the Debt Ceiling in the Last 45 Years

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen identified June 5 as the day the U.S. government would default on its obligations, should congress fail to raise the nation’s borrowing limit. Though the Senate passed the debt ceiling bill, averting a default, such a default would have had catastrophic…

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