Senior House Democrat presses Trump administration on debt ceiling plans

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House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., demanded Monday that the Trump administration tell Congress its plan for raising the federal debt limit.

“I am writing to request the Administration’s plans and timing to ask Congress for an increase in the debt limit to prevent a first-ever default on the full faith and credit of the United States,” Neal wrote in a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who oversees debt limit planning for the administration.

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