Maya MacGuineas on the debt ceiling, federal spending and the looming default date

Without additional borrowing authority, the federal government may have less than a month before it defaults on its debt. Join The Post’s Heather Long for a conversation with Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, about the looming default date and what’s at stake for the U.S. economy.

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