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Debt Ceiling Brinksmanship Is Mostly Kabuki

Debt Ceiling Brinksmanship Is Mostly Kabuki

But this cannot continue forever…

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Christopher Cook
May 23, 2023
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A majority of Americans want spending cuts attached to any debt-ceiling increase. As Mike Beckom’s cartoon below indicates, the GOP is attempting to oblige. So now the dance begins…

  • The GOP, who are marginally more fiscally responsible than the Democrats, will “demand” some spending sanity.

  • The Democrats—who would print, borrow, and spend our way to post-…

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