In the United States, partisan wrangling could imperil future government spending plans or even cause a destabilizing delay to a needed debt ceiling increase.
The crops that we planted have been washed away, and our fields will be waterlogged for many months to come, imperiling the critical wheat-planting season.
That would imperil the party's ability to get behind any substantial legislation before the November congressional elections, when their control of Congress seems in doubt.
And something that President Bostic mentioned this week was when you have such heightened uncertainty about the outlook and uncertainty across financial markets that ultimately can imperil the global economy.
Despite the long and collaborative history shared by these two countries, many Dominican elites saw Haiti as a racial threat that imperiled political and commercial relations with white western nations.