https://www.yahoo.com/gma/biden-calls-republicans-refusing-help-163034300.html

why raise the debt ceiling if the build back better spending pays for itself?

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Because the debt ceiling is for funds already committed.

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Yeah they are at fault. Y’all cheering it in the shutdown thread.

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They voted for a demented kid sniffer, and they got one. Now they have to defend it at all costs. :wink:

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From the article:

ā€œIt has nothing to do with future programs of payments, it’s entirely about paying bills that have already been incurred by this Congress, in previous Congresses, and it’s about making good on past commitments – as you said, paying our credit card bill,ā€ Yellen said in a hearing last week.

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Never mind the fact that Biden voted against the debt ceiling 3 times under Bush admin.

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So what, he doesn’t need the Republicans, he’s got control of the whole government.

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Only if they drop the filibuster.

In The Early 2000s, When Republicans Were In Power, Sens. Joe Biden And Chuck Schumer Had No Qualms About Voting Against Debt Limit Increases, With Biden Describing The Vote As ā€˜A Protest Of The Policies That Have Brought Us To This Point’ And Schumer Running Campaign Ads Against The Vote

But repubs are protesting their own policies and spending. Weird.

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This is all hoopla the debt ceiling will be raised no way the US defaults on its debts that would plunge the world into a crisis

McConnel said they have no objections and will not add anything to. The Dems are free to use budget reconciliation to pass it.

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Let 'em do it. Let everybody see.

That’s not what y’all said last time.

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I dunno.

I think the R’s are edging closer and closer to just burning it all down.

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Remember when Trump’s tax cuts were going to,pay for themselves? Or if they didn’t, we could threaten default and negotiate better debt terms?

Pepperidge Farms remembers…

But this is about money spent now, not later.

Why? And no I’m not joking.

Won’t happen count on it…too many special interests

As per the prior post, I guess they can attach it to reconciliation. If that’s correct than my post was incorrect.

If they do use reconciliation, they ought to set the limit out for years, or get rid of it entirely.

As I understand it they have plenty of money coming in each month to pay the interest. So they won’t default.

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Let the the repubs filibuster, then vote on it.

US debt and currency rule all they are considered the golden standard.

Pull that rug and it will send shockwaves