richest country on earth immediately stops paying its entire civil service when there’s a disagreement on the budget which is something that literally only happens in the USA as far as I know.
I’m sure there’s some 🤓☝️ reason like the govt runs on a blockchain that uses proof-of-anti-communist-law-passing to mine new blocks or something
Yeah it’s not in the interest of either party to get rid of it because it’s an ocassion to wrest something from each other. Neither is actually interested in good governance, if they were they’d just get rid of the debt ceiling entirely.