let's look at the calendar not very far because on october twenty third the government will oso szell security beneficiaries a payment of twelve billion dollars plus billions and other obligations so that seven billion dollars that the government receives daily won't cover it then on november first huge obligations to medicare doctor social security recipients and members. and veterans of our military come due totaling more than fifty eight billion dollars next up on november fourteenth another twelve billion dollars social security payment comes due and on november fifteenth the treasury needs to pay a twenty nine billion dollar interest payment on our debt again all that with just seven billion dollars coming in each debt and that last date the twenty nine billion dollars interest on debt payment that's an important date since if the u.s. can't meet that obligation then what efficiency be in default so the republican strategy of prioritizing debt bateman's to avoid default once we pass the debt limit may actually work but it will only work until november fifteenth so that's what the united s