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Sean Casten: “If we blow up, and I would remind my colleagues that we expanded the debt limit every time when Trump was President...”

On the recordMay 15, 2023
If we blow up, and I would remind my colleagues that we expanded the debt limit every time when Trump was President...
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Sean Casten
Democratic · Illinois

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Casten warns about the economic consequences of failing to raise the debt limit.

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