GOP's Debt Ceiling Strategy: A Fragile Victory with Uncertain Future
A small group of conservative budget experts is cautioning House Republicans that brinkmanship over the nation’s borrowing limit could lead to economic disaster, warning of severe financial ramifications even as their own party ignores their advice. The analysts have held hundreds of meetings, phone calls and Zooms with GOP House and Senate members and their aides over the past several months, rejecting the suggestions from the right that the debt ceiling can be breached without financial calamity.