{"id":88151,"date":"2017-08-25T20:33:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T20:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/treasury-chief-says-debt-ceiling-will-be-raised.html"},"modified":"2017-08-25T20:33:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T20:33:26","slug":"treasury-chief-says-debt-ceiling-will-be-raised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/treasury-chief-says-debt-ceiling-will-be-raised.html","title":{"rendered":"Treasury chief says &#8216;debt ceiling will be raised&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday the nation&#8217;s debt ceiling will be raised in September and that after talks with congressional leaders from both parties everyone is &#8220;on the same page.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My strong preference is that we have a clean debt ceiling (increase), but the most important issue is the debt ceiling will be raised in September,&#8221; Mnuchin told reporters at the White House, indicating an interest in legislation that did not stray into unrelated territory. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have had discussions with the leaders in both parties in the House and Senate and we are all on the same page,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The government intends to pay its debts and the debt ceiling will be raised.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Attribution_content_27_rw\">Reporting by James Oliphant; Writing by Tim Ahmann; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday the nation&#8217;s debt ceiling will be raised in September and that after talks with congressional leaders from both parties everyone is &#8220;on the same page.&#8221; &#8220;My strong preference is that we have a clean debt ceiling (increase), but the most important issue is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-88151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}