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May 2023
27m 42s

US debt ceiling: Will the deadlock final...

Bbc World Service
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US President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy have been in talks over raising the U.S. federal government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling. Kasia Madera hears from Nancy Kimelman, a Professor in Economics at Northeastern University. 
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