The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has already stated that a failure to raise the debt ceiling would be "catastrophic," but reiterated its position with the IMF's top economist issuing another alert. The body makes a sharp distinction between the government shutdown and the failure to raise the debt ceiling. 

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