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The GOP wonks trying to get their party not to detonate the debt limit bomb
A few conservative budget experts are cautioning House Republicans that #brinkmanship over the nation’s #borrowing #limit could lead to economic #disaster, warning of severe financial ramifications even as their own party ignores their advice.
In both public and private comments, a handful of GOP budget experts — #Brian #Riedl, who was an aide to former Ohio Republican senator Rob Portman; #Michael #Strain, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute; and #Douglas #Holtz-#Eakin, a former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office — have tried to counter the growing argument on the right that the debt ceiling can be breached with only minimal economic impacthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/27/debt-limit-gop-policy-wonks/