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Weaponizing the Debt Limit Should Not Be Normalized

Josh Bivens and Samantha Sanders Economic Policy Institute
President Biden should do “whatever it takes” to avoid an economic catastrophe. House GOP-led efforts are to blame for the impending debt crisis. In 2011, the GOP’s demands for massive spending cuts sabotaged the Great Recession recovery.

Why I Changed My Mind on the Debt Limit

Laurence H. Tribe The New York Times
The right question is whether Congress — after passing the spending bills that created these debts in the first place — can invoke an arbitrary dollar limit to force the president and his administration to do its bidding.

May Day in Cuba: Solidarity Against the Embargo

Walter Smolarek CounterPunch
Miya Tada, a brigade participant from New York, explained how this showed that “the biggest obstacle the Cuban people are facing is the repression and economic warfare of our own government, and that just inspires me to further the struggle against the blockade back in the United States.”