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Mark Pocan and Bryan Steil on the National Debt Ceiling

Frederica Freyberg:

Speaking in their districts this week, Congressman Bryan Steil, a Republican and Mark Pocan, a Democrat, point fingers on the debt ceiling and forward their own agendas for the 118th Congress.

Mark Pocan:

You don’t mess around with the debt ceiling unless you truly, you know, are on some sort of a strange death wish because it’s just awful for the country. So our hope is that calmer heads will prevail as time goes on.

Bryan Steil:

I just think it’d be foolhardy if we simply just made the one payment on the credit card but didn’t change any of our behavior because we’re going to show back up again next month.