Ending a perilous stalemate, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders announced agreement Sunday night on an emergency deal to avoid to avert the nation’s first-ever financial default. The arrangement would cut more than $2 trillion from federal spending over a decade. The dramatic agreement, with scant time remaining before Tuesday’s deadline, “will allow us to avoid default and end the crisis that Washington imposed on the rest of America,” Obama said. Default “would have had a devastating effect on our economy,” the president said at the White House, relaying the news to the nation and to financial markets around the world. He thanked the leaders of both parties. More here.

Question: Do you approve of the debt deal?

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