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Congress Switches Focus to Debt Limit

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The coming week will see a return to fiscal drama in the U.S. Capitol, with lawmakers scrambling to raise the federal borrowing limit before they adjourn for a week-long recess. VOA’s Michael Bowman reports, Democrats and Republicans have yet to agree on a formula to boost the debt ceiling, and failure to act would leave the U.S. government unable to pay all its bills by the end of the month.