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Treasury Says There Is Only $88 Billion Left to Avoid a Debt Cap
Breitbart ^ | 05/13/2023 | Jacob Bliss

Posted on 05/13/2023 4:18:53 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The U.S. Treasury Department said on Friday that there is only $88 billion in extraordinary measures left for the government to pay its bills as of Wednesday, down from $110 billion a week earlier.

As of Wednesday, May 10, the U.S. is said to only have $88 billion left before it reaches the debt ceiling. Just one week earlier, there was said to be $110 billion left, meaning only about a quarter of the $333 billion of authorized measures are left for the government to use before hitting the debt limit.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: avoid; cap; debt; morebucksforzelensky; treasury
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Treasury is full of baloney
1 posted on 05/13/2023 4:18:53 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They’re afraid the money train giveaway will dry up

I lost sympathy several trillion dollars ago


2 posted on 05/13/2023 4:21:54 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Imagine that? Being asked to spend within your means.

Not one penny more. Let Fed.gov operate with the many $$ Trillions it collects in taxes.


3 posted on 05/13/2023 4:22:59 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: NWFree

Time to default.


4 posted on 05/13/2023 4:24:34 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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Treasury is full of baloney

Have you seen the price of baloney these days?

5 posted on 05/13/2023 4:25:45 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Perhaps they could cash in some aluminum cans?


6 posted on 05/13/2023 4:26:06 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: joma89

They’ll try their best to default


7 posted on 05/13/2023 4:28:36 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

School loan forgiveness plan is about 373 billion


8 posted on 05/13/2023 4:33:30 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Welp, I guess its time to tell Ukraine, 'sorry, but we're broke'.
Of course the caterwauling by Lindsey and the other DC critters on the war gravy train (and Ukraine money laundering machine) would be loud.
But, be that as it may, we have to make cuts - and the dollars sent to fund some war, not in our backyard, is an easy call.
9 posted on 05/13/2023 4:38:43 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

About what we abandoned in Afghanistan....


10 posted on 05/13/2023 4:41:55 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Stop paying the Senators and Congresscritters first. Then everybody in the DoE, EPA, BATF, FBI, und-und-und. No deferral BS, just don’t pay them.


11 posted on 05/13/2023 4:43:47 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Needs a name...

Hmmmm....

Okay, I got it...

The BIDEN DEFAULT.

12 posted on 05/13/2023 4:49:49 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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Gee, what happens when we’re all short on cash is we stop spending.


13 posted on 05/13/2023 4:49:51 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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--- "Gee, what happens when we're all short on cash is we stop spending."

Wouldn't want to upset those skimming the cream now. would we? / s

14 posted on 05/13/2023 4:55:56 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

For fiscal year 2022, interest on the national debt amounted to 8% of federal spending.

It’s going to be about the same for 2023.

So why aren’t they tapping into that other 92% to prevent default on the debt?

The answer must be because it’s more important to spend millions of your money on invading illegal alien “migrants” and to pay for Ukraine’s war with Russia.


15 posted on 05/13/2023 4:56:53 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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“The Biden administration and congressional Republicans are making progress in their negotiations over federal spending and raising the debt limit, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said, adding that she believes the talks could result in an agreement.

“I’m hopeful. I think the negotiations are very active. I’m told they have found some areas of agreement,” Ms. Yellen said in an interview Saturday at the end of a gathering of finance ministers from the Group of Seven advanced democracies in Japan.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-democrats-making-progress-in-debt-limit-talks-yellen-says-d9d4fbd9?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos1


16 posted on 05/13/2023 4:59:47 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Way to go, Joe!


17 posted on 05/13/2023 5:04:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That’s about 10 days the way the government spends money.


18 posted on 05/13/2023 5:06:30 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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19 posted on 05/13/2023 5:08:12 PM PDT by 11th_VA (XX < > XY)
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That would be failed up hack Yenta Yellen’s Dept. $crew her.


20 posted on 05/13/2023 5:17:49 PM PDT by DAC21
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