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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhile much of the press is reporting that republicans won't raise the debt ceiling, leaving
Democrats holding the bag.
What isn't being reported is that the Democrats don't need to republicans to raise the debt ceiling. They can use reconciliation to raise the debt ceiling, and in addition can effectively raise the debt ceiling by an amount so high that a breach won't happen into the future, and for all practical purposes, abolishing the debt ceiling.
The Magistrate
(95,243 posts)Four quadrillion sounds about right....
JohnSJ
(92,061 posts)The Magistrate
(95,243 posts)It's not a number often seen in the wild....
JohnSJ
(92,061 posts)jaxexpat
(6,804 posts)Though it is their natural habitat.
Poor them, I say.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)FSogol
(45,452 posts)ChazInAz
(2,559 posts)FSogol
(45,452 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)a Gazillion!
Pinback
(12,152 posts)IbogaProject
(2,789 posts)Let's make it about red state COVID stupidity and only raise it through 2024, like how it got suspended during TFG 's term.
Warpy
(111,169 posts)It's what needs to be done, anyway, and use every nasty procedural process McConnell has used over the years to get it done.
Farmer-Rick
(10,140 posts)Then not worry about the debt ceiling.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)calimary
(81,127 posts)Especially in the so-called right-wing media. Of which there frankly shouldnt be any.
You shouldnt be allowed to have your own facts. Especially when those facts are anything but.
And now we have entire networks and other media devoted to pushing and reinforcing fantasy over facts. And as long as we have that misinformation feed that serves, reinforces, reaffirms, and reassures the so-called great unwashed, seems to me were pretty well fucked.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)The raising of the debt ceiling is both inevitable and purely political theatre.
GoodRaisin
(8,908 posts)what to do about Manchin?
wryter2000
(46,023 posts)Are we limited in the number of times we can use reconciliation?
JohnSJ
(92,061 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Response to PoliticAverse (Reply #21)
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