Analysis Frozen Federal Debt Could Do Serious Damage to the Recovery by Gary Kopycinski on June 7, 2011 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Analysis: Martha Washington’s Enslaved Maid Ona Judge Made a Daring Escape to Freedom – but the National Park Service Has Erased Her Story From Philadelphia Exhibit February 14, 2026 Always Watching: How ICE’s Plan to Monitor Social Media 24/7 Threatens Privacy and Civic Participation November 10, 2025 Full-blown Fascism Has Arrived in America as the Pentagon Expels the Press October 16, 2025 Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 7, 2011. A failure to raise the federal debt limit could be a disaster for the fragile economic recovery—and conservative threats to block action could already be causing harm.