The debt-limit time machine: What the last 10 big fights tell us about this one

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Democrats lauded domestic spending increases and some tweaks to Social Security and Medicare, and Republicans celebrated more money for the military and changes to entitlement programs.
65% : Ceiling at the time: $12.4 trillionHow it went down: In another echo of the current debt fight, fiscal conservatives made it tough that year to rally enough votes to raise the borrowing limit.
48% : Mick Mulvaney, Trump's acting chief of staff at the time, and Russ Vought, then the White House budget chief, were also in the mix, both unsuccessfully pushing to freeze federal spending.
22% : And indeed, Republicans insistent on killing Obamacare ended up crushing every idea Boehner proposed for handling the debt limit and funding the government.

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