Sentence examples for ceiling clash from inspiring English sources
To make matters worse, this deal also delayed the automatic cuts to entitlement programs and defense for two months, allowing this future battle to coincide with another debt ceiling clash.
The super committee created in the wake of the debt ceiling clash is comprised of 12 members of Congress tasked with cutting at least $1.2 trillion from the national debt by the end of the year.
It chronicles the president's lame-duck session victories, the Egyptian and Libyan crises, the bin Laden raid, and the frustrating budget and debt ceiling clashes, detailing crucial White House meetings and negotiations sessions.
November 14 , 20134.52pm GMT A reminder of the recent clash over America's debt ceiling - Janet Yellen warns senators that a US debt default would be catastrophic.
During a lunch of hoagie sandwiches at the White House that was supposed to be about urging Congress to act on proposals to spur the economy, Mr. Obama and the House speaker, John A. Boehner, clashed again over the debt ceiling.
Her complaint that the cuts were illusory also clashed with her own critique of the debt ceiling deal from last week, when The Des Moines Register quoted her as saying: "Under this debt ceiling bill, do you know how this works?
And once again, we hear about the rise of the Tea Party and the president's clashes with Republicans in Congress over the budget, the debt ceiling and sequestration.
Mr. Obama also raised the specter of another economic downturn if Republicans do not raise the debt ceiling, aides said, and he noted that in 2011 — the last time Washington clashed over a debt ceiling increase — the stock market dropped 17 percent, the country's credit rating was downgraded and consumer confidence dropped.
The latest step in the negotiations came Thursday afternoon when Obama met with House Republicans, with both sides clashing over how soon a) the government could be reopened and b) the debt ceiling could be raised.
The latest turn in the summer's epic clash between the White House and Congressional Republicans came little more than a week before the government hits its borrowing ceiling, and set off accusations from both sides about who was to blame.
