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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 9h \ parent \ on: Horror! U.S. Government Stays Open! (Financial Times) news
not a new thing
Happens every now and again, on average once every 1.5 years or so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_debt_ceiling#:~:text=The%20debt%20ceiling%20was%20raised,times%20from%202001%20to%202016.
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12 sats \ 1 reply \ @oklar 9h
Ah, I think I was missing a piece of the puzzle of why it occurs, thanks.
I was thinking why is it not possible to do a PR/merge and get all the state departments to update their codebase without a shutdown.
So, it's feature specific to the presidential system, not a bug?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 6h
I miscalculated! 76 times in 63 years is of course MORE than once a year.
Thank god I don't teach maths @Shugard
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