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Joe Courtney: “Using the lever of default as a way of basically, you know, putting this country at gunpoint, in terms of having to…”

On the recordMarch 27, 2023
Using the lever of default as a way of basically, you know, putting this country at gunpoint, in terms of having to adopt policies that fall outside the appropriations process and the authorizing process, is again another recipe for again suppressing growth in this country, isn't that correct?
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Joe Courtney
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Courtney criticizes using debt default as a political tool, warning it harms economic growth.

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