The federal government once again faces a new debt limit that it cannot exceed, after an 18-month stretch in which it was free to borrow as much money as it wanted.
The new debt ceiling is $19.846 trillion, which was the total amount of national debt accrued through Wednesday. The exact amount was $19,845,811,298,014.03.
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