Mitch McConnell: No debt ceiling vote until 2018

Published September 12, 2017 7:15pm ET



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said Congress will not have to vote to raise the nation’s borrowing limit until some time in 2018 thanks to the Treasury Department’s flexibility in handling the debt ceiling once it is reinstated in December.

“We will not be revisiting the debt ceiling until next year,” said McConnell, R-Ky.

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