The Congressional Budget Office has warned there is a “significant risk” that the US government will be unable to “pay all of its obligations” in the first two weeks of June if the debt ceiling is not raised.
The intervention by the government spending watchdog reinforces US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen’s warning that the federal government could be heading towards an unprecedented default as soon as June 1.
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