Dems take GOP's short-term debt fix offer, kicking deadline to December
Source: Politico
Democrats are planning to accept an offer from Mitch McConnell to let them raise the debt ceiling into December without a GOP filibuster, multiple senators said after a closed-door caucus meeting on Wednesday.
Senate leaders were working to finalize the deal on Wednesday night, effectively deciding to kick the can on the stalemate over the nations borrowing limit for the next two months. But even as Democrats accepted part of the Senate minority leaders entreaties, they pledged to reject his demands that the majority party use the laborious process of budget reconciliation to pass a longer debt ceiling increase.
Democrats accepted the deal because "Mitch McConnell finally saw the light" on offering a solution that could pass quickly, said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
"We're going to raise the debt ceiling and we're going to go on and pass infrastructure," said Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.). "We're never going to do it through reconciliation."
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/06/republicans-filibuster-debt-limit-515355
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)What shit will Moscow Mitch pull then.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)makes the old young again.
Harker
(14,015 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)so fascists can use the number against Dem candidates, I hope Dems don't fall for that.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)Effectively end the debt limit, and the republicans can have fun explaining tree(3) to the idjits.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)next year.