New Year, Old Debts: Stage Set for Congressional Free-For-All Over Painful Budget Cuts

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Last week, Treasury secretary Janet Yellen warned the US would reach its new debt limit sometime between January 14-23, risking a government shutdown. Earlier, President-Elect Trump tried to strongarm lawmakers into upping limits to federal borrowing, or doing away with them altogether, with fiscal conservatives vowing to fight him over the issue.
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