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Published
February 10, 2023

Commentary: $31 trillion isn’t the scariest number in debt-ceiling fight

The real problem facing the White House and Congress is a budget deficit that is forecast to average 4.3% of GDP in coming years.
Published
February 6, 2023

Dick Polman: Republicans doing the same thing over and over again
Published
January 29, 2023

Jim Fossel: Nothing should be off table in debt ceiling negotiation

What can the White House give that will satisfy Republicans? Plenty.
Published
January 28, 2023

Another View: If Kevin McCarthy is serious about protecting the economy, he’d raise the debt ceiling

There’s no justifying brinkmanship in 2023, when policymakers are striving to head off a recession.
Published
January 27, 2023

Commentary: What Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Black Card’ can teach lawmakers about the debt limit

In the end, neither the Sultan of Brunei, nor Seinfeld, nor American politicians should be given a limitless line of credit.

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Published
January 19, 2023

Fact-check: McCarthy puts a spin on spending math to justify debt limit fight

McCarthy suggests that the Republican-controlled Congresses never increased spending at all. That's false.
Published
January 19, 2023

U.S. Treasury buys time for Biden and Republicans on debt limit deal

The Treasury Department says it has started taking 'extraordinary measures' as the government has run up against its legal borrowing capacity of $31.381 trillion.
Published
January 9, 2023

McCarthy concessions raise stakes on budget, debt limit

By increasing the difficulty of a bipartisan agreement on spending, it could raise the risk of a market-rattling battle over the debt limit and a partial government shutdown later this year.
Published
October 30, 2022

Jim Fossel: The national debt is getting spookier

We always spend freely when a crisis comes along, and we never tighten our belts when it’s over.
Published
October 11, 2022

Another View: Democrats should scuttle the debt ceiling before America hits the fiscal brink

The debt ceiling has routinely been raised over the years, a process that used to be uncontroversial. In today’s deeply divided Congress, that has changed.