US Government Workers Sue to Block Shutdown Amid Debt Crisis
- NAGE seeks declaration that debt cap is unconstitutional
- Biden set to meet with McCarthy on debt ceiling Tuesday
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US government employees asked a federal judge to order Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to continue borrowing to keep the government open if political talks to raise the national debt ceiling fail.
The National Association of Government Employees Inc. – a union representing 75,000 federal agency and military employees – sued President Joe Biden and Yellen Monday in an attempt to avoid the kind of government shutdown experienced in 2019, when Democratic Congressional leaders refused to fund President Donald Trump’s Mexican border wall.