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Robin Lindley interviews interview White House speechwriter Cody Keenan on his moving and illuminating memoir Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America. Cody shares a behind-the-scenes depiction of White House operations and the pressure of working on demanding schedules with one of the most celebrated writers and orators in modern history--President Obama. 

The US budget is again teetering on running out of money because the Republicans and Democrats are playing a game of chicken on whether to raise the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling caps how much the US can borrow through issuing bonds. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that failure to pay US bondholders will cut revenue to foreign countries, corporations worldwide, US IRA accounts, and personal holdings, which “would undoubtedly cause a recession in the US economy.”