POLITICO Playbook: Return of the default deniers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Amid another looming debt showdown, WaPo's Jeff Stein, Leigh Ann Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer scooped details of a brewing GOP plan to put a bill on the House floor instructing the Treasury Department to prioritize 1) debt service payments, 2) Social Security, Medicare and veterans benefits and 3) military funding absent a bipartisan agreement to raise the borrowing cap.
48% : The controversial proposal, which has not been finalized, "would still leave out huge swaths of critical federal expenditures on things such as Medicaid, food safety inspections, border control and air traffic control, to name just a handful of thousands of programs," the trio note.

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