Faulkender’s current focus on the debt ceiling can be traced to his first week at the Department of Treasury, where he served as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy from 2019 to 2021, as he began work on the Financial Report of the U.S. Government.
He cites as especially relevant from the report: “If changes in policy are not so abrupt as to slow economic growth, then the sooner policy changes are adopted, the smaller the changes to revenue and/or spending will be required to return the government to a sustainable fiscal path.”