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There is no official deadline for congressional Republicans to pass their budget reconciliation bill to put in place President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda, but they’ve imposed one on themselves by including a debt-ceiling provision in the tax-and-spending legislation.
Despite the Treasury Department’s “extraordinary measures” to avoid a default on the United States’ $36.22 trillion in debt, Congress must once again raise the statutory debt ceiling.
Charles Hilu is a reporter for The Dispatch based in Washington, D.C. Before joining the company in 2024, he was the Collegiate Network Fellow at the Washington Free Beacon and interned at both National Review and the Washington Examiner. When he is not chasing down lawmakers on Capitol Hill, he is probably listening to show tunes or following the premier sports teams of the University of Michigan and city of Detroit.
