The usual suspects in the Senate are ready to tie a debt-ceiling vote in knots.
Ben Adler
Ben Adler is a senior editor at City & State NY. He previously worked for Politico, The Nation, and Reuters, and he has written for The Washington Post and The New Republic, among other publications.
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