theGrio’s Joy Reid explains the debt ceiling

theGRIO VIDEO - You've no doubt heard plenty about the debt ceiling, or "debt limit" in the last couple of weeks, but just what is it and why are so many people saying that breaching it would be really, really bad for the country?...

You’ve no doubt heard plenty about the debt ceiling, or “debt limit” in the last couple of weeks, but just what is it and why are so many people saying that breaching it would be really, really bad for the country?

TheGrio’s Joy Reid explains.

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