The next steps in Washington’s very busy week are currently up in the air.
Senate Republicans blocked an effort to raise the debt limit and also avert a government shutdown Monday night.
Now the Democrats are likely going to have to move on those issue one at a time with an Oct. 1 deadline to avert a shutdown and Oct. 15 or soon thereafter to address the debt ceiling.
“It’s never even conceivably thoughtful to think about defaulting,” Jared Bernstein, a member of President Biden’s Council…
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