Today, we're going to talk about what Republicans are trying to get in exchange for holding

the debt ceiling hostage, and I interview former Republican consultant and writer at the

Bowwerk, Tim Miller, about the ever-growing list of George Santos lies, where a so-called

moderate Republican like him fits into politics now, and what he expects to see from the impending

Trump to Santos feud.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

So this past week, the US officially hit its debt limit.

And last week's episode, I warned about what's at stake if the US defaults, which is basically

the full faith and credit of the United States, domestic and global markets, the stability

of the US dollar.

Even though we hit our limit, the Treasury Department is now using what it's calling extraordinary

measures to meet its obligations for just a limited amount of time, which brings us to

June of this year.

If the debt ceiling isn't raised by then, we'll see our economy crater and the dollar's

position as the world's reserve currency put at risk.

So fun stuff.

So the solution here, as I explained in the past, is a clean bill raising the debt ceiling.

Republicans won't do that because they see this as their opportunity to hold the entire

economy hostage in exchange for a few concessions.

And in terms of those concessions, we don't know all of them yet because Kevin McCarthy won't

reveal what he promised those hostage takers in exchange for their speaker votes, but

we're slowly starting to learn what some of them are and they are insane.

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