Posted on 11/29/2021 2:25:38 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Congress is only a couple of weeks away from hitting the Dec. 15 deadline to raise the federal debt limit, and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) don’t appear to be anywhere close to a deal.
Democrats insist that Schumer will not burn up a week of Senate floor time to use the budget reconciliation process to raise the debt limit with only Democratic votes.
And Republicans say there’s no way that McConnell will be able to round up 10 Republican votes to quash an expected filibuster from conservatives such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and allow Democrats to pass debt limit legislation with a simple majority under regular order.
At the same time, both leaders want to avoid another standoff that could threaten the nation’s credit rating and have stepped back from the combative rhetoric they were using in September and early October.
McConnell walked over to Schumer’s office on Nov. 18 for their first in-person sit-down meeting since Democrats took over the Senate in January.
Afterward he told reporters: “We agree to kind of keep talking, working together to try to get somewhere.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Of course the Turd will sell out the Country.
It’s grasping at straws, but is there any chance a meteorite could hit the Capitol before the vote is taken?!?
Dems can raise it all by themselves.
Turtle and the commie-lite Senators will absolutely cave at the last minute. They will do so because the Deep State will order them to.
By voting for the debt ceiling, they allow the 5+T Put the US in Bankruptcy bill to be passed. By not voting on the debt ceiling, the Commie’s have to do it themselves. Then, the commies are faced with dropping all consideration of the 5+T bill or dropping the filibuster. Dropping the filibuster will not work out so well for the commies in 2022 and 2024.
But raising it will open a door for the Dems Super Duper reconciliation bill which will sc*** us for years to come. There isn't one damn thing in that bill that is a necessity....it's all about programs....once started....will never end.
2 weeks? How about in 1hour span....you my friend are tooooo generous! You see this sniveling POS Coward has already called Schumer and agreed to fund. No mystery here.
Thus, Trump’s accurate pre-emptive strike.
Ducks in a barrel. Ducks in a barrel.
Shut down is always good, for the American public.
One trillion each December for the next 20 Decembers.
You’re quite correct. The rats only have one reconciliation round in the chamber. I just don’t see BBB passing this year, so they can use reconciliation to raise the debt ceiling and there’ll be fresh reconciliation rounds to put through the economies head next year. Theres no need for MConnell to cave, and he’s irredeemably craven if he does
Naw. It will be three weeks. They have to have a week of the media crying about the fat and lazy federal workers going without Christmas. That gives them cover, see they have a heart.
The BEST thing that could happen to the USA would be NO debt ceiling increase, followed by collapse of US government bond market and Fed.gov insolvency.
Otherwise the beast continues to be fed and we all continue to bitch how we are being taken over by neo-marxists and the deep state in DC.
The writing is on McConnell’s back
The Dems are trying really hard to pass this second bill THIS YEAR. They do NOT want it to go into an election year.
Mitch will bow down as always.
We have to cut spending in areas, when other areas go up.
Just cut spending like the rest of us have to do in our personal budgets.
Quit borrowing on our children’s future, and cut out all the socialist give-a-ways.
Of course Dems would love to see us go bankrupt, or have to default and turn over US assets to China to cover the debt.
Wall Street wants the debt limit increased. GOP corporate donors want the debt limit raised, too. China Mitch represents them and not Main Street. This one isn’t hard to wargame out at all.
What’s the big deal with shutting down the feral givenrment down for 3 - 12 months? Feral and state givernments had no problem shutting down the private sector due to the CCP virus. Xiden has put forth a mandate that will cause millions of American taxpaying citizens to lose their job. When they lose their jobs, they won’t be paying income taxes. But since the feral givernment isn’t open, they won’t need them anyway.
Shut it down - no pay. “We’re all in the this together.” /s
There are my own thoughts and it may be all wrong.
If Mitch stays strong, and the debt limit MUST pass, YellenMunchkin, said it MUST pass, Schumer could attach THAT bill to the “Infrastructure Bill” and only require 50 votes.
This is where I may be wrong:
You can only allow ONE money bill to form a “Reconciliation” which would leave the monster Build Back Buster Bill needing 60 votes.
I know it’s a dream, but it is my dream.
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