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Nation’s debt limit bill more a financial reprieve than resolution:

     Instead of a final resolution on America’s borrowing ability, the enacted bill provides a two-year window for the Treasury Department to borrow – as needed – funds to pay the nation’s already more than $31 trillion of debt. When January 2025 arrives, a new session of Congress will face the deferred problem. Until then, according to the Congressional Budget Office, cutbacks on discretionary spending would result in a drop in projected budget deficits of about $4.8 trillion over the next decade, and a savings of $0.5 trillion in interest. […]

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We The People (WTPMarch.org) Need You Now

     Authoritarian law-makers and legislatures have introduced close to 1,000 pieces of hateful legislation across the country. While many Americans are disgusted and outraged, the voices we’re hearing loudest and clearest are those of a vocal minority determined to roll back 70 years of progress. They deliberately are attacking and attempting to dismantle our democracy, stripping whole groups of people of their basic civil rights. […]