The Washington area’s congressional delegation united Monday to call for federal help in preventing the nation’s ballooning credit crisis from grinding Metro to a halt this week.

The cash-strapped transit agency could be required to make bank payments of up to $400 million, more than $40 million of it by Wednesday, after the collapse of an insurance group that guaranteed Metro’s financial deals.

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