Trump Overrules GOP With Deal on Spending, Debt, Harvey Aid

By Erica Werner / AP Sep 6, 2017 The president cuts a deal with Democrats to fund the government and raise the federal borrowing limit for three months, all part of an agreement to speed money to Harvey relief. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

How Obama Could Beat the Debt Ceiling and Go Out a Hero

By Ellen Brown / Web of Debt Oct 28, 2015 The debt ceiling is an unconstitutional gimmick that violates the 14th Amendment, and it could be eliminated for good by restoring to the government its constitutional authority to create money. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

‘Left, Right & Center’: Debt Limit, Obamacare’s Numbers and Gay Marriage

Staff / Truthdig Feb 15, 2014 Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists discuss House Speaker John Boehner's decision to allow a vote on a debt ceiling increase despite resistance from fellow Republicans, The New York Times' call for an end of the debt limit and the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Debt Ceilings

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John Boehner’s Sunshine Band

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Feb 13, 2014 From now on, it's the Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah House. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Senate GOP Leader Rejects His Own Idea to Avoid Debt Limit Showdowns

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Oct 30, 2013 Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced Tuesday that he now opposes his own plan to avoid the kind of debt ceiling fiasco that nearly led the nation to default this month. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Grand Reopening

Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill Oct 22, 2013 Dig deeper

‘Kony 2012’ Snuck Into the Debt Ceiling Adjustment Bill

Staff / Truthdig Oct 22, 2013 The deceiving viral video that helped America justify fighting proxy wars in Africa has left its mark; Obamacare critics rant against Canadian style health care, but there are key differences between our system and that of our neighbor to the north; meanwhile, France is belatedly outraged about the NSA leaks. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

U.S. Debt

Martin Sutovec, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia Oct 22, 2013 Dig deeper

No Economic Disaster

Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands Oct 21, 2013 Dig deeper

United States Debt Ceiling

Christo Komarnitski, Cagle Cartoons, Bulgaria Oct 21, 2013 Dig deeper

The Debt Ceiling Circus: The Show Must Go On

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 19, 2013 Rather than resolving the debt crisis, lawmakers' 11th-hour deal to raise the debt ceiling, which threatened to push the global economy over the edge, simply delayed it Financial Times chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf, tells Bill Moyers the US debt ceiling is “the legislative equivalent of a nuclear bomb aimed by the U at itself”. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )