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Claire McCaskill: “I have heard people say that if we do not raise the debt limit, it will be the end of the world. I have yet to meet…”

On the recordJanuary 23, 2017
I have heard people say that if we do not raise the debt limit, it will be the end of the world. I have yet to meet someone who can articulate the negative consequences.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

McCaskill questions the dire predictions about not raising the debt limit.

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