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The Balance used three scenarios for describing the debt addition during the Obama Administration: Debt added from when Obama was inaugurated January 20, 2009 ($10.6 trillion) to when he left office on January 20, 2017 ($20.0 trillion), an increase of $9.4 trillion. This calculation simply compares two points in time and does not analyze cause.
In January 2012, the U.S. debt hit the new limit of $15.194 trillion and the treasury began using extraordinary measures once again. The President requested the final increase, to $16.394 trillion. On January 18, 2012, the House passed a disapproval of the second debt limit increase by a vote of 239–176.
On July 31, 2011, President Obama and the leadership of both legislative chambers reached a deal on the debt limit legislation. The deal guaranteed $2.4 trillion in immediate and eventual debt limit increases. It mandated $917 billion in spending cuts over ten years, of which $21 billion would be included in the FY2012 budget.
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Debt consolidation is the process of combining several debts into one new loan, sometimes with a lower interest rate. Although it sounds like an ideal solution, there are both pros and cons ...
Debt consolidation is a popular way to manage and organize high-interest debt. This strategy rolls multiple debts into a single account, often with a lower interest rate, to streamline repayment.
On August 2, 2011, President Obama signed the Budget Control Act of 2011 as part of an agreement with Congress to resolve the debt-ceiling crisis.The Act provided for a Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the "super committee") to produce legislation by late November that would decrease the deficit by $1.2 trillion over ten years.
Obama, in turn, asserted that the 2013 sequestration cuts already represented a budget compromise, and that he did not intend to negotiate further on the issue of debt repayment. However, the president said that he would be willing to negotiate on almost any issue after a clean bill to reopen the government and increase the debt ceiling had ...