Waiting for Day-X
@Robert J. Teuwissen:
Although there is a tentative agreement between President Biden and Speaker of the House McCarthy, it must still be ratified by Congress next Wednesday. The problem is that the Republican party does not exactly speak with one voice. Fifteen rounds were needed just to elect McCarthy speaker of the house. Already 78 times the debt ceiling of the United States has been raised. The U.S. Constitution states that only the U.S. Congress may determine how much the U.S. government can borrow. Therefore, until 1917, every U.S. government loan had to be approved by Congress, but since the Second Liberty Bond Act of 1917, only the maximum size of the debt is set by Congress. If the president and Congress are of the same colour, an increase is a hammerlock. Similarly, when there is a Republican preside