Summary

Donald Trump called for abolishing the debt ceiling, labeling it a “psychological” concept with no real purpose.

He criticized a bipartisan short-term funding deal, calling it a “Democrat trap,” and signaled support for legislation to permanently end the debt ceiling.

Trump had previously raised the ceiling during his first term and floated its elimination. Some Democrats, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, echoed support, citing the need to end “governing by hostage taking.”

Trump’s stance reflects concerns over upcoming legislative challenges in his second term.

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    A broken clock will be correct at some point unless the only thing broken about it is the time it has been set to.

    I.e. a perfect clock with the wrong time is never correct, but that is the only instance if a clock that is never correct (save dumb edge case like an unplugged digital clock or something).

    Fun math, thanks.

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      There could also be mechanical failures with a gear or something which may cause it to tick erratically, skip, or even maybe occasionally backwards. Extreme edge cases, certainly, but that’s why I said may never.

      Semantics ftw, thanks!

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        Erratic, backwards, no matter

        Unless all of its erratic was canceled out to be perfect time keeping, it will in fact be correct at some point.

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        I specifically accounted for such nonsense responses and yet here we are.