Congressional leaders negotiating over a deal to raise the debt ceiling and avoid the first default in the nation's history are working against an unforgiving force: the legislative calendar.President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy's meeting on Tuesday afternoon to try to break their impasse over increasing the cap comes just over two weeks before the projected X-date of June 1 the day the Treasury Department has projected it could no longer pay the United States government's debts.
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