Sentences with phrase «current debt ceiling debate»

Of course the irony is that the current debt ceiling debate does not address any of the very important longer term fiscal issues that face the US such as Medicare funding and other booming social costs that lay ahead — these issues are not even on the table.

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Not coincidentally, the current plan is for such changes to be debated and, Republicans hope, passed sometime around the end of the year — the same time the debt ceiling will be coming back up.

Meanwhile, the U.S. government remains divided on key issues across the board — from the contentious vote to raise the debt ceiling to current debates on how to reduce the $ 14.94 trillion federal debt and cut deficits projected to be more than $ 1 trillion annually.