“If Republicans try to impose that plan on this country as a condition for raising the debt limit, then they will own the responsibility for the first default in our history, with devastating consequences,” Geithner said in a speech to the Harvard Club of New York.
Geithner noted that the country reached the current borrowing limit of $14.29 trillion on Monday. He said he has begun deploying a series of bookkeeping maneuvers to avoid a debt default but that he will run out of maneuvering room around Aug. 2.
Speaking to a New York audience, Geithner said that Republicans would bear responsibility for the first debt default in the nation’s history if they insist they will not vote for an increase in the $14.3 billion borrowing limit unless they win approval of a House Republican budget plan.
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