this idea that somehow you can minimize the pain to the country, minimize the damage to our credit and our credibility by, in effect, not meeting your obligations, some obligations, while you meet others is, I think, mistaken.
Geithner argues against prioritizing certain payments over others to avoid default.
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if Congress were to choose to try to defer everything... that would be very damaging to the interests of the country.
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