This doesn’t make much sense: By a 48 to 35 percent margin, Americans are more concerned about the government increasing the debt ceiling and boosting spending than a forced government default that would hurt the economy, a Pew Research Poll concluded Tuesday. Both parties are frantically trying to come up with a deal ahead of August 2—the day the federal government is scheduled to run out of money. While both parties have agreed the Treasury Department needs to keep borrowing to pay the government’s bills, Republicans have proposed strict cuts to try to cut the debt down.
