I hope Congress has learned a hard lesson: that we should not hold our national debt limit hostage over arbitrary spending caps.
Betty McCollum: “I hope Congress has learned a hard lesson: that we should not hold our national debt limit hostage over arbitrary…”
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McCollum emphasizes the importance of not using the debt limit as a bargaining tool.
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