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2016 Postmortem

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10. The debt ceiling has to be raised in March 2017.

Thu Dec 22, 2016, 01:53 PM

Dec 2016

He's put a guy in the budget office that's against raising the debt ceiling. Defaulting on the national debt will send us into a Great Recession.

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