Jack Lew on the debt ceiling crisis: This can never happen again

Published October 20, 2013 4:00am ET



A debt ceiling standoff “can never happen again,” warns Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.

Speaking with David Gregory of NBC‘s “Meet the Press” the Friday after President Obama signed a bill lifting the debt limit and reopening the government, Lew called the standoff that preceded the vote to raise the debt ceiling “a little bit scary because it got so close to the edge.”

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