I see no reason to raise the debt ceiling. If money is tight, we can just fire a boatload of federal workers.
Every FREEPER in the past would hate raising the debt ceiling. Suddenly they are cheerleaders for it. Twilight zone territory.
No debt ceiling has never limited one single $ of deficit spending - all it does is pit Republicans against Republicans while Democrats continue to spend with abandon.
Right now, because of an arbitrary debt ceiling that is just going to get raised anyway, Democrats know they will have the help of fiscally conservative Republicans in defeating any bill that does not give the D’s everything they want..
The debt ceiling is just a way for Democrats to threaten Republicans with shutdown