Raising the federal debt ceiling this year will likely come as part of a budget reconciliation package alongside concessionary spending cuts given the razor-thin Republican majority in the House. As ever, a deal likely won’t be reached until the eleventh hour – which we estimate to be sometime in the early summer – and might only enable the Treasury to borrow for another year or so.
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