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All the material here is covered in more detail at United States public debt. This article should be expanded or deleted. LaTeeDa (talk) 01:43, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Bush only had control of both the house and the senate for 123 days. Jeffords Defected on May 24, 2001 giving control of the senate to the dems. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mantion (talk • contribs) 07:00, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
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This section's (Number of requests for increase) second paragraph's last sentence currently reads:
In practice, the debt ceiling has never been reduced, even though the public debt itself may have reduced.
Yet the in at least two places this statement is contradicted.
Most notably, the section "Historical debt ceiling levels" lists a significant reduction from the April 3rd 1945 level to the June 26th 1946 level.
I have no idea if this means the statement is just wrong, or if it's an 'apples and oranges' situation where different concepts are being jumbled together.
At a minimum it's confusing. If anyone knows the fix, please edit. Otherwise, the assertion above should just be dropped.
Thoughts?
jg (talk) 19:45, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
The values for the total debt ceiling reported by the US Treasury in its recent "Monthly Statements of the Public Debt" are as follows:
Date | Debt ceiling ($m) | Source |
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JANUARY 31, 2022 | 31,381,463 | source |
DECEMBER 31, 2021 | 31,381,463 | source |
NOVEMBER 30, 2021 | 28,881,463 | source |
OCTOBER 31, 2021 | 28,881,463 | source |
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 | 28,401,463 | source |
AUGUST 31, 2021 | 28,401,463 | source
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This seems to differ from the values given in the table in the article, by relatively small but still significant amounts. Does anyone know the reason for the discrepancy? Grover cleveland (talk) 07:23, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
why is there nothing on the 1985 crisis which seems really imnportant as it set precedents that are still in force see https://www.gao.gov/assets/hrd-86-45.pdf https://braddelong.substack.com/p/correction-debt-ceiling — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.245.17.105 (talk) 14:32, 19 May 2023 (UTC)