The US Senate is engaged in a race against time to validate in turn an increase in the debt ceiling, and thus remove the threat of a default of the first power. The bill examined in the Senate has already been validated Wednesday evening by a large majority of elected members of the House of Representatives.
It makes it possible to raise for two years, so until after the presidential and legislative elections of 2024, the maximum amount of debt of the United States, currently at 31.400 trillion dollars.