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WH adviser: Congress must raise debt limit for the long term

Congress should raise debt ceiling for the long term, White House economic adviser says

Aired 10/06/2021

PBS News Hour

WH adviser: Congress must raise debt limit for the long term

Clip: 10/6/2021 | 6m 37sVideo has Closed Captions

Congress should raise debt ceiling for the long term, White House economic adviser says

With a new but possibly temporary deal providing a potential pathway out of the impasse between congressional Democrats and Republicans over raising the federal debt limit, Judy Woodruff gets more on the state of play and what's at stake with Jared Bernstein, a member of the president's Council of Economic Advisers.

Aired 10/06/2021

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