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Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) will try again on Wednesday to advance a debt-ceiling suspension bill, amid an entrenched stalemate over the nation's borrowing limit.
Schumer, on Monday night, teed up a vote for Wednesday where he'll need 60 votes to break a filibuster and move forward with suspending the debt ceiling through December 2022.
That would require 10 Republicans to break ranks in the 50-50 Senate, something that is exceedingly unlikely.
"Before the end of this week, the Senate must - must - get a bill to the president's desk to address the acute crisis of the debt limit," Schumer said from the floor on Monday.
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