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How Republicans are weaponizing the debt ceiling

Published January 31, 2023 at 9:20 AM PST

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer about how Republicans are using the debt ceiling to weaponize the government.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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