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The United States debt ceiling or debt limit is a legislative restriction on the amount of national debt that can be issued by the Treasury. Since expenditures are authorized by separate legislation [the budget], the debt ceiling does not actually restrict deficits. In effect, it can only restrain the Treasury from paying for expenditures that have already been incurred...
A 2011 Government Accountability Office study found "the debt limit does not control or limit the ability of the federal government to run deficits or incur obligations. Rather, it is a limit on the ability to pay obligations already incurred."
United States debt ceiling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe United States debt ceiling or debt limit is a legislative restriction on the amount of national debt that can be issued by the Treasury. Since expenditures are authorized by separate legislation [the budget], the debt ceiling does not actually restrict deficits. In effect, it can only restrain the Treasury from paying for expenditures that have already been incurred...
A 2011 Government Accountability Office study found "the debt limit does not control or limit the ability of the federal government to run deficits or incur obligations. Rather, it is a limit on the ability to pay obligations already incurred."
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