First of all, good news. There has been sufficient agreement on increasing the national debt ceiling . The next new ceiling will again become a crisis point in early 2025 after the next presidential election. Appears that there will be some Democrat concessions regarding work requirements and standards on recipients of food stamps. Medicaid will remain untouched. As Janet Yellen has more recently indicated an absolute deadline of Thursday, June 8, there will be some discussions in the House on Tuesday, where there will be grudging approval, followed by action in the Senate, probably on Wednesday. Then the President signs on Thursday and the world will be saved from a Great Recession. Might take a day later than Yellen's warning, but everything seems at this point to be okay. I guess there will not be a fatal Act Two by Republicans. What's that? Read my posting of 26May2023 . So my take: Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that he has...
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