debt limit
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The Treasury has broad statutory authority to issue debt in any form, subject to the debt limit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has urged Congress to address the debt limit by mid-July and warned if they do not, the US could be unable to pay its bills as early as August.
From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025
And, third, any policy passed through budget reconciliation must directly affect federal spending, revenue, or the debt limit.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2025
In the end, they actually defied him, passing a bill that was silent about the debt limit.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2024
As things are now, all the money spent for docks, for instance, is charged against the city in calculatin' the debt limit, although the Dock Department provides immense revenues.
From Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon by Plunkitt, George Washington
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