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Steny Hoyer: “The one justification for keeping the debt ceiling... is that it is an effective extortion measure.”

On the recordFebruary 15, 2022
The one justification for keeping the debt ceiling... is that it is an effective extortion measure.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Hoyer critiques the debt ceiling as a tool for coercing policy changes.

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