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Debt Limit Deadline Looms

Debt Limit Deadline Looms

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Congress will once again have to extend the federal debt limit this month. The US Treasury Department has warned that the country would once again bump up against the borrowing limit of just over seventeen trillion dollars by February 27th.

House republicans are divided over what to attach to a debt limit deal. South Dakota Congresswoman Kristi Noem says that is not unusual…

 

The democratically controlled Senate will only consider a so called “clean” debt limit increase, one that does not have other issues attached.

Noem says they want to work that out…

 

Noem says republicans are not drawing a red line…

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