{"id":36488,"date":"2022-11-27T20:43:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T20:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/opinion-before-the-debt-ceiling-is-lifted-congress-must-pose-this-question\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T20:43:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T20:43:16","slug":"opinion-before-the-debt-ceiling-is-lifted-congress-must-pose-this-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/opinion-before-the-debt-ceiling-is-lifted-congress-must-pose-this-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Before the debt ceiling is lifted, Congress must pose this question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Before the <a href=\"https:\/\/budget.house.gov\/publications\/fact-sheet\/debt-ceiling-explainer#:~:text=The%20Constitution%20grants%20Congress%20the,is%20slightly%20below%20%2431.4%20trillion.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">debt ceiling<\/a> is lifted, which it must be, Congress must dare to at least pose a question.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">In much of Peter Orszag\u2019s Nov. 22 op-ed, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/11\/21\/republicans-house-debt-ceiling-treasurys\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GOP threats to weaponize the debt limit are dangerous<\/a>,\u201d one can agree with his conclusion, but when he mentioned, \u201cThe evolution of debt is also influenced by the economy, market interest rates and other factors, but those are mostly outside the control of policymakers,\u201d he omitted vital aspects. Let me explain it with a question:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiX2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDIyLzExLzI3L2Zldy1xdWVzdGlvbnMtYmVmb3JlLWRlYnQtY2VpbGluZy1pcy1saWZ0ZWQv0gEA?oc=5\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the debt ceiling is lifted, which it must be, Congress must dare to at least pose a question. In much of Peter Orszag\u2019s Nov. 22 op-ed, \u201cGOP threats to weaponize the debt limit are dangerous,\u201d one can agree with his conclusion, but when he mentioned, \u201cThe evolution of debt is also influenced by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}