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Title: More Obamanomics: TurboTax Cheat Timmy Geithner Grabs Cash from Federal Pension Fund
Source:
Yahoo News/Rueters
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/treasury-dips ... void-debt-limit-202850021.html
Published: Jan 18, 2012
Author: Rueters
Post Date: 2012-01-18 12:17:52 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: Obama-doma-ding-dong, Obamanomics in action, Tax Cheat Geithner
Views: 287
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury on Tuesday started dipping into federal pension funds in order to give the Obama administration more credit to pay government bills. "I will be unable to invest fully" the federal employees retirement system fund beginning Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in a letter to Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress. The House of Representatives is expected to vote on Wednesday on the Obama administration's request to raise the country's legal debt limit to $16.394 trillion. However, unless the lower chamber and the Senate are able to shore up enough votes to block the White House request, the debt limit will be increased by $1.2 trillion next Friday and a repeat of last year's debt ceiling debacle will be averted. Geithner said Treasury started suspending reinvestments in a federal pension fund known as the G-Fund -- a tool Treasury has had to employ six times over the past 20 years in order to keep the country below the statutory debt limit. The Treasury Department has already tapped another seldom-used fund in order to allow the government to continue borrowing without running afoul of the country's laws. (Reporting By Rachelle Younglai; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and James Dalgleish)
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