How the U.S. national debt reached $31.4 trillion

If you stacked up the full debt of the United States in hundred dollar bills, you could make not one, not two, but 13 piles of cash as tall as the Washington Monument. Lisa Desjardins takes a look at what the nation owes and has the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations on Capitol Hill.
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