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La dette américaine est à son plus haut historique, atteignant désormais $30000 par habitant
by Open-Publishing - Saturday 1 April 2006Le niveau de la dette est situé autour de 9000 milliards de dollars ($9000000000000, 12 zéros), ce qui est un record absolu. Qui peut dire comment les USA pourraient rembourser des sommes pareilles au reste du monde, à qui ils empruntent?
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress agreed to let the government borrow another $781 billion Thursday, allowing lawmakers and President Bush to pay for the war in Iraq and combat terrorism without raising taxes or cutting popular domestic programs.
The Senate, on a 52-48 vote, sent to President Bush a bill raising the ceiling on the national debt to nearly $9 trillion and preventing a first-ever default on U.S. Treasury notes. When the government reaches the new ceiling, expected sometime next year, the debt will represent $30,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States.
The House avoided an election-year vote on raising the debt limit by automatically sending the bill to the Senate when it passed a budget last year.
The bill passed the Senate just hours before the House was expected to approve another $91 billion to fund the war in Iraq and provide more aid to hurricane victims.
The partisan vote also came as the Senate continued debate on a $2.8 trillion budget blueprint for the upcoming fiscal year, beginning Oct. 1, that would produce a $359 billion deficit.
In twin setbacks for GOP leaders, the Senate voted 51-49 to add $3 billion to the budget for heating subsidies for the poor and 73-27 to add $7 billion for education, health and worker safety accounts. The moves broke through President Bush’s overall "cap" on agency budgets to be funded later in the year through appropriations bills.
Congress has now increased the debt ceiling four times by a total of $3 trillion since Bush took office five years ago.
The Senate vote came a day after Treasury Secretary John Snow warned lawmakers that action was "critical to provide certainty to financial markets that the integrity of the obligations of the United States will not be compromised."
After the vote, Snow [...]