Sentences with phrase «held the debt ceiling»

Imagine an alternate universe in which Republicans had NOT shut down the government or held the debt ceiling hostage over Obamacare funding.

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... didn't do it so now we have a big deal with Dems holding them up (as usual) on Debt Ceiling approval.

On the other hand, Yellen might decide to hold off scaling back the QE stimulus if the current government shutdown and debt - ceiling battle last long enough to take a sizable toll on the economy or end with a deal that entails more heavy - handed spending cuts.

Further, according to BofA - Merrill's analyst team at a midyear press conference on Wednesday in New York, any positive budgetary effect of the tax increases would be overshadowed by the growing burden of the U.S. debt ceiling as spending and hiring decisions are put on hold and the election heightens partisanship.

If the Republicans, who are holding out for concessions on the health care law — the Affordable Care Act — in exchange for a budget vote, back down or are blamed for a shutdown, they would have even less ability to push their wishes by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, analysts at DBS in Singapore wrote Tuesday.

Mr. Ceci also announced that the government would legislate a debt ceiling of 15 percent debt - to - GDP in order to hold off a risk of credit downgrades and higher debt service costs.

Time for a quick catch - up story — it may seem like ancient history now, with the debt ceiling battle completely dominating domestic politics, but a couple of weeks ago President Obama held a «Twitter Town Hall,» using a live video feed to answer questions sent in through the microblogging site.

The question of who would hold responsibility for a failure to raise the debt ceiling and a government default, posed as a hypothetical question, has received quite a bit of polling and a substantial majority say they would assign the blame squarely on the Republican party

Time for a quick catch - up story — it may seem like ancient history now, with the debt ceiling battle completely dominating domestic politics, but a couple of weeks ago President Obama held a «Twitter Town Hall,» using a live video feed to answer questions sent in through the...

But Republicans held fast throughout the negotiatons, saying they would refuse to allow a vote on raising the debt ceiling unless tax increases are taken out of the conversation.

«Americans» awareness of policy uncertainty leading up to the October 1st shutdown and the pending debt ceiling debate appears to have grown as indicated by an apparent cautionary holding pattern in overall consumer housing and personal finance sentiment.»