Geithner: Congress Will Raise Debt Ceiling — And Leaders Told That To Obama And Me Appearing on This Week, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said: “Well, I want to make it perfectly clear that Congress will raise the debt ceiling.” When asked by Christiane Amanpour whether he was sure about that, Geithner responded: “Absolutely. And they recognize it, and they told the president that on Wednesday in the White House. And I sat there with them, and they said, we recognize we have to do this. And we’re not going to play around with it. Because we know — we know that the risk would be catastrophic.”
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