Fact Checker’s guide to the debt ceiling

The following article by Meg Kelly was posted on the Washington Post website July 31, 2017:

With a deadline of Sept. 29 looming and Congress nearing their summer recess, the debt ceiling is primed to be a big issue when they return. Here’s what you need to know. (Video: Meg Kelly/Photo: Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)

In May, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged Congress to raise the debt ceiling before lawmakers recessed for the summer. Yet with lawmakers’ attention turned to health care for so long, there was little movement on the issue. And now, summer recess is here. Continue reading “Fact Checker’s guide to the debt ceiling”