Fox News' MacCallum just wrong that U.S. is “on track” to hit “new” debt limit “this month”
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Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum falsely reported that “if you remember correctly, last Thursday, Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling by 1.9 trillion, right, to 14.3 trillion,” and that according to a wire report, “the Treasury Department has just said that we're gonna be on track to hit that approved debt ceiling this month, in the month of February.” In fact, the Associated Press reported the same day that "[t]he Treasury Department said Wednesday it expects to hit" the “current” debt limit of $12.4 trillion and noted that “the House has yet to pass” the proposed $1.9 trillion increase.