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Okay, so believe her or not, some progress has been made on the debt ceiling issue,

and it's really turning out to be a buzzer beater. A few months ago,

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told us that the US would face default on its debts by June

first if the debt ceiling wasn't raised. She recently revised that estimate and said the US could

probably handle its bills a little longer, and that actually X-Day or the day the US would no

longer have authorization to pay its debts is June 5th, which doesn't totally bias that much more

time, but the government has taken a big step toward a resolution. As I'm recording this on Monday

May 29th, here is the latest. Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy revealed a proposed agreement

on Sunday night, 99 gorgeous pages of a budget recommendation, and announced to the House

that the voting will happen on Wednesday. Don't you just love it when your boss hits you with a 99

page document on a Sunday night? Now again, voting is supposed to happen on Wednesday, but majority

leader Chuck Schumer said that the vote may realistically happen on Friday or even over the weekend.

If the deal passes in the House and in the Senate, President Biden said he would sign it,

which is a big signal of his support, so we could have a new debt limit set just in time for X-Day.

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