{"id":84,"date":"2014-02-08T09:44:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T15:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookco.us\/news\/?p=84"},"modified":"2014-02-08T09:44:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T15:44:31","slug":"what-happens-to-your-tax-refund-in-a-debt-ceiling-stalemate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/what-happens-to-your-tax-refund-in-a-debt-ceiling-stalemate\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens to Your Tax Refund in a Debt-Ceiling Stalemate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/financial.jpg\"><font size=\"4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"financial\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"financial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/financial_thumb.jpg\" width=\"86\" align=\"left\" height=\"127\"><\/font><\/a><font size=\"4\">Expecting a federal tax refund? Perhaps you should hurry up and file.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">As House Republicans struggle to coalesce around a strategy for embracing an increase to the nation&#8217;s $17 trillion-plus debt ceiling so the nation can keep paying its bills, Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee are floating a new bogeyman if the delay continues.<\/font> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"4\">&#8220;Failure to act quickly [on the debt ceiling] will endanger our economic recovery and send a signal to American taxpayers that their refunds may be in jeopardy, potentially raising unnecessary panic among families awaiting their tax refunds,&#8221; wrote the Democrats in a letter Monday to Speaker John Boehner. The letter was circulated by ranking member Sander Levin and signed by other Ways and Means members.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/congress\/what-happens-to-your-tax-refund-in-a-debt-ceiling-stalemate-20140205\" target=\"_blank\"><font size=\"4\">Read the entire story here<\/font><\/a><font size=\"4\">.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expecting a federal tax refund? Perhaps you should hurry up and file. As House Republicans struggle to coalesce around a strategy for embracing an increase to the nation&#8217;s $17 trillion-plus debt ceiling so the nation can keep paying its bills, Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee are floating a new bogeyman if the delay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}