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The 52-to-44 52-to-44 52-to-44llowed party lines, with Democrats supporting the increase in borrowing authority and Republicans opposed.
Asked about the security of Tate & Lyle's dividend, Ahmed said the group had a strong balance sheet despite the increase in borrowing.
The August borrowing gains reflected a $4.2 billion increase in borrowing on credit cards and a $13.9 billion increase in auto and student loans.
The chancellor said the increase in borrowing - to GBP37.4bn, more than three times the amount he originally predicted - was affordable because his bullish economic growth forecasts were holding, reports the Guardian.
Setting out the argument for an early rate rise, the MPC said there would potentially be little risk associated with a small increase in borrowing costs against a backdrop of economic growth.
After repeated boosts to government spending, fiscal policy is also no longer working, with consumers in Japan rightly suspicious that they will eventually have to pay for the increase in borrowing through higher taxation.
The announcement goes some way to answering the concerns raised by Vince Cable in a recent New Statesman article in which the business secretary called for an increase in borrowing to revive housebuilding.
Fed boss Janet Yellen is expected to announce the increase in borrowing costs despite a slowdown in global trade and a slump in oil and commodity prices that has pushed inflation down to almost zero in most developed countries.
Although it is widely expected that the ceiling will eventually have to be lifted, Democrats want to do so in a separate bill that would let them link the increase in borrowing to the Republicans' proposed tax cut.
The Whitehall independent forecasting unit has made it clear that much of the UK's GDP growth throughout this period would evaporate were it not for this increase in borrowing.
It said there was a chance of a sharper economic slowdown than the chancellor was predicting, with every half-point under the growth forecast causing a £4bn increase in borrowing.
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