debt limit
Americannoun
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Quiroz said Kast will abide by the debt limit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
In other areas, like the question of the debt limit, MacDonough and other parliamentarians have acted more as literalists, according to Kogan.
From Salon • Jan. 9, 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
Also known as the debt limit, this is a law that restricts the total amount of money the government can borrow to pay its bills.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2024
We could have a state constitution, too, which would extend the debt limit so that we could issue a whole lot more bonds.
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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