Whoever is elected president won’t get much breathing room after taking office: The government’s borrowing limit is set to run out in mid-March, potentially sparking another brouhaha with Congress.

The federal debt limit has been suspended since late 2015, but the law is set to be reinstated on March 16. Immediately the current debt limit of $20.1 trillion will be breached, according to calculations by the Bipartisan Policy Center.

“Just two months after the next president and Congress are sworn in, they will be running a government that is up against its legal borrowing limit,” said Shai Akabas, director of fiscal policy at the center.

As has often happened, the U.S. Treasury can temporarily take “extraordinary measures” to make sure the government does not default.

Yet the Congress and White House would almost certainly have to agree to raise the limit not later than midsummer to stave off a crisis. The spending cuts required would be too deep to solve the problem alone.

Fights over raising the debt limit broke out between the Obama White House and ruling Republicans in Congress in 2011 and 2013, unsettling Wall Street and foreign investors. The two sides struck a deal in 2015 to suspend the debt limit until Obama left office.

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The national debt has grown tremendously in the wake of the Great Recession owing to slower economic growth and tax revenues and higher government spending. The total owed by the U.S. government has more than doubled to $19.5 trillion as of August from $9 trillion shortly before the onset of the Great Recession at the end of 2007.

The total debt surpassed the size of the U.S. economy in 2012 for the first time since the end of World War Two, according to a calculation by Haver Analytics. Just 10 years ago, the debt was only two-thirds the size of annual economic growth.