Pass a Bill in the House and end this Joke.
I agree they should legislate something and send it up.
I’m guessing that maybe they don’t want to expose the split in their own House ranks.
Some GOP in the House will not vote for anything that includes an increase in the debt ceiling, no matter what else is in the bill. Never, never, never.
Others want to raise the debt ceiling coupled with cuts, and instructions to pay social security, veterans etc first.
Please, don’t start that up about “if we cut, we don’t need to raise the debt ceiling”. That sounds right, but it isn’t. I don’t know where you are on that, but I’ve been dealing with it with others.
You would have to immediately cut 40% of spending, so that we had no need to borrow one dime going forward. That is not the kind of cutting they are talking about, so the debt ceiling would still need raising under that scenario. Even the Paul Ryan budget envisioned continued borrowing, just at a lesser and lesser extent.