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Treasury tells Congress it will suspend some federal retirement funding after debt limit breach
CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/debt-limit-treasury-suspends-some-federal-retirement-funding.html
Hope22
(1,858 posts)Congress will certainly hear those phones ringing! Also Manchin says the easiest solution to the SS/ Medicare problem is to raise the cap! OMG, the first time ever I have heard anything sensible out of the mans mouth!
progressoid
(49,998 posts)WOW.
The senator indicated he was open to raising the income cap for Social Security taxes.
Im open to basically raising the easiest and quickest thing we can do is raise the cap, he said.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/22/politics/joe-manchin-debt-ceiling-cnntv/index.html
progressoid
(49,998 posts)tritsofme
(17,399 posts)They will only feel the pressure as these measures come close to exhaustion.