Tag Archives: Catastrophic

BEIJING — U.S. anti-doping chief Travis Tygart said Friday that the testing delay that allowed Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva to compete at the Olympics was “absolutely inexcusable” and “a catastrophic failure of the system that is so egregious, it almost seems intentional.” “I’m not saying that it is [intentional], because I don’t know that,” Tygart clarified in a phone interview. “But it never should’ve happened.” The International Testing Agency confirmed Friday that Valieva, the… Source link

The United States Congress has a deadline on paying its bills: October 18, 2021. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen said that if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling, the Treasury will run out of emergency funds to pay U.S. debt holders by that date. “Failing to increase the debt limit would have catastrophic economic consequences,” Yellen told the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday. In August, a statutory limit on federal debt — called the debt ceiling — was reinstated,… Source link