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@pa_tall @edburmila The debt ceiling does not control the nation’s debt. It is a limit on what the Treasury is legally allowed to borrow to pay debts already incurred by the United States. It would be as if you had to get permission to pay your mortgage every month. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pa_tall @edburmila Dave, this isn’t a hypothetical. The debt ceiling has existed in one form or another since 1917. At no point has it ever “controlled spending.” Nearly a century’s worth of Congresses and White Houses have treated it as little more than a formalit. — PolitiTweet.org