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The 2011 debt-ceiling crisis has shown how a party in control of only one chamber of Congress (in this case, Republicans in control of the House of Representatives but not the Senate or the Presidency) can have significant influence if it chooses to block the routine raising of the debt limit. [19]
In practice, the administrations of Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden have rejected relying on legal arguments against the constitutionality of the debt ceiling. Obama said in 2011 that his lawyers "were not persuaded that that is a winning argument." [79] In 2023, Biden's Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called this strategy "legally ...
The Budget Control Act of 2011 (Pub. L. 112–25 (text), S. 365, 125 Stat. 240, enacted August 2, 2011) is a federal statute enacted by the 112th United States Congress and signed into law by US President Barack Obama on August 2, 2011. The Act brought conclusion to the 2011 US debt-ceiling crisis.
The President and Congressional leaders have agreed on a package to raise the debt ceiling and reduce deficits by $2.5 trillion over the next decade. Congress still has to pass the.
In fact, we've been in this debt-ceiling-raising situation 78 -- yes, seventy-eight -- times since 1960. Once again, disaster appears to have been averted, and both political parties.
Americans' serious fears about the U.S. government's debt ceiling stalemate are proliferating and growing in volume as the deadline to pass an increase or face default looms. If you think ...
The 2011 S&P downgrade was the first time the US federal government was given a rating below AAA. S&P had announced a negative outlook on the AAA rating in April 2011. The downgrade to AA+ occurred four days after the 112th United States Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling of the federal government by means of the Budget Control Act of 2011 on August 2, 2011.
Here's the headline of the year: Apple (NAS: AAPL) now has more cash than the U.S. Treasury. As of Wednesday, the U.S. government had an operating balance of $73.7 billion. Apple has $76 billion ...