For the moment, the Trump administration can implement "emergency measures" to stay under the debt limit, but it won't be too long before we get to a major crisis point because the federal government is quickly running out of cash.  Already, the U.S. Treasury has less cash on hand than Apple or Google, and that cash balance is going to keep on dropping until the debt ceiling is finally lifted.

You may remember that the debt ceiling became a major issue a couple of times during the Obama years.  Last time around, Barack Obama and the Republicans in Congress agreed to a horrendous deal which suspended the debt ceiling until several months after the 2016 election…

Since President Barack Obama signed the "Bipartisan Budget Act" on Nov. 2, 2015 there had been no legal limit on the amount of money the federal government could borrow until now. That law included a section entitled "Temporary Extension of Public Debt Limit." It said that the law imposing a limit on the federal debt "shall not apply for the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on March 15, 2017."