courtesy of MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/gop-wants-keep-pretending-debt-ceiling-real-rcna81798?cid
"Neither the group counting on Democrats to cave or the group arguing that the U.S. #defaulting wouldn’t be so bad is willing to accept that the #debtceiling is a terrible point of leverage. It has to be raised regardless of what conditions the #GOP sets."
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The thing is, the US Treasury will have enough revenue to pay its debts, so defaulting is absolutely not on the table unless the president decides for himself to default.
