哪儿有生死关头啊。政客们演戏，老百姓就不要入戏了。狼来了喊了这么多次，居然现在还有人相信debt ceiling。

Congress has raised the debt ceiling 19 times from 2001 to 2022. Also, the debt ceiling has suspended (above debt ceiling, aka debt ceiling crisis) 6 times from 2001 to 2022.