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3 Nightmare Scenarios for the Debt Ceiling

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Just before lawmakers left town for the August recess, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that Democrats should provide the votes needed to pass the increase in the federal debt ceiling required by the end of September.

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