I continue to say the debt limit is fake. Let me explain in more detail why this is the truth. Congress created something called the Treasury general fund. It's basically a fully funded account to the Treasury that the Treasury can tap to cover things when other funds are short. Think of it as a no bounce checking account. If say the debt limit is reached, this fund is used to cover the bills until Congress can lift the fake debt limit, which they always do. Once Congress gets it's act together and agrees to the spending demands from the minority party to fully fund their pet projects in exchange for their votes to lift the debt limit this accoubt is then fully funded again by issuing more debt. They always fund this account before the debt limit is reached. This is the account Sec Bessent has been using as well as tarrifs revuene, a good tax season and what is known as 'extraordinary measure' to keep the US out of default since we hit the debt limit back around Jan 21, 2025. The day after, Trump took office. It's funny how that worked out, isn't it? ....anyway... moving on. So basically, the longer Congress dicks around with the "debt limit" fight the more debt will be required to fully fund this account for the next time the fake debt limit drama plays out. In effect, Rand Paul is costing us millions/billions by his stunt to stop the BBB to "not raise" the debt limit. He knows this. You probably didn't. I think the last time we had this discussion back in 2023, it cost about $800 billion of new debt to fully fund the account. So basically as soon as the debt limit is raised you are talking about a quick $500b to $1 trillion of debt to fund this no bounce checking account that we had to tap for the last 4 months because the freedom clowns refused to raise the debt limit back in December in the CR fight. The freedom clowns cost you that debt to play their games, and Congress will do it again this time so they can play this game again the next time the debt limit is "reached." Now they justify this because money is fungible and the money would have been paid in debt regardless it's just taking it from a different account until they get done with their game. However, there's a real cost as this debt is issued usually all at once to make sure the account is funded and that impacts interest rates due to supply and demand. The bond market knows this game well and makes money off the trade. Everyone is happy, but you, as more of your tax money, go to the games they play in DC. Trump is right scrapping the fake debt limit, will end the games, and actually save us money. The clowns know this, but they won't give up in their leveraged games and instead push fear of no limits on debt to keep their games going. The strongest debt limit we will ever have, and the only one we need but don't use is the ballot box.