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Biden blasts McConnell, GOP on 'dangerous' debt ceiling gambit
The Hill ^ | 10/04/2021 | Sylvan Lane

Posted on 10/04/2021 9:56:53 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

President Biden warned Monday that the U.S. may default on its debt for the first time in history if Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) continues to block Democratic attempts to raise the federal borrowing limit.

Speaking to reporters following a Monday speech on the fiscal standoff, Biden said he cannot guarantee that the U.S. will be able to pay its bills past Oct. 18 if GOP senators are unwilling to clear a path to keep the country solvent.

“I cannot believe that will be the end result, because the consequences are so dire,” he said. “But can I guarantee it? If I could, I would. But I can’t.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: biden; blasts; debt; debtceiling; debtlimit; mcconnell
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Biden's blasts diaper. News at 10.
1 posted on 10/04/2021 9:56:53 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What the hell is the point of even having a ‘debt ceiling’ if you’re just going to raise it every time you get near it, anyway?.........................


2 posted on 10/04/2021 9:58:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Poor Chucky. if he wants it so bad, he doesn’t NEED any Republicans to vote for it. Corral the Democrats, and he can get it without one Republican vote at all. Just like Pelosi can get it in House, without one Republican vote.

MAKE the Democrats eat every penny of it.


4 posted on 10/04/2021 10:01:19 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

6 feet for the big guy.


5 posted on 10/04/2021 10:01:28 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Democrats own this. Shut down the federal government until the election fraud is corrected. During the shut-down, pay off some of the national debt, too.


6 posted on 10/04/2021 10:03:24 AM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Biden like the other demorat economic genius’ can’t seem
to grasp the part of how to stop debt by stopping spending.


7 posted on 10/04/2021 10:04:00 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Red Badger

The debt ceiling isn’t what people think. People need to learn what it really means. The spending above the debt ceiling has already been approved and will be spent. Raising the ceiling simply tells the lenders we are going to pay our debt to them so they don’t raise the interest rates on our outstanding debt. (That would be a very bad thing.)

And the other thing to know is that if congress follows the constitution and passes a budget, the debt ceiling never comes up. We only have to raise the debt ceiling because we have no budget.


8 posted on 10/04/2021 10:05:03 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Leave Us Alone.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Dear Visa, I just discovered that I have reached my credit limit. I don’t have any money to pay down my balance, but I really want to buy more stuff. Can you please raise my limit? Thank you. KevinB


9 posted on 10/04/2021 10:05:55 AM PDT by KevinB (''.nd to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: ChicagoConservative27
McConnell: "Bipartisanship is not a light switch that Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer may flip on to borrow money and flip off to spend it."

-PJ

10 posted on 10/04/2021 10:06:09 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh look, DementiaJoe wants to keep spending money we don’t have while also doing his best to destroy our economy and import the third world. Democrats are even revealing Australia style control measures are acceptable to them. I watched a video on them wanting to evict all ‘unvaccinated’ people from their homes, and you can check it out top of page at Whatfinger News in crawler link. “...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...” Those words mean more now than ever before. Stolen elections have consequences and we are all learning the right now.


11 posted on 10/04/2021 10:07:47 AM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: wbarmy

Filibuster requires 60 votes so no democRATs can’t pass spending without Republican help.


12 posted on 10/04/2021 10:08:45 AM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: T Ruth

When they steal elections Democrats don’t consider it fraud, and since we don’t steal elections that justifies their claim that there is no such thing as election fraud.


13 posted on 10/04/2021 10:09:47 AM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They could possibly pay the debt if not for their insistence on handing out more and more cash to influence voters.


14 posted on 10/04/2021 10:10:22 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: KevinB

Child minds trapped in adult bodies (aka democRATs) don’t understand a REAL budget, where you spend within your means (aka income, salary, inheritance, whatever).


15 posted on 10/04/2021 10:11:11 AM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Meanwhike, the ChiComs take over our ports...

Please Explain. Exactly Why Do We Have a Shipping Crisis?

And not a peep out of Congress.

16 posted on 10/04/2021 10:11:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Dear Bugout Biden

Your party control all of the US Federal Government. The GOP is totally unnecessary to passing your disaster of a political agenda.


17 posted on 10/04/2021 10:12:51 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

18 posted on 10/04/2021 10:12:54 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: beethovenfan
6 feet for the big guy.

Fold him in half as a cost-saving measure.

19 posted on 10/04/2021 10:16:57 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

They changed the filibuster to an actual voice filibuster. They can outlast anyone on the Republican side to get the filibuster to end.

They want a Republican to join them to give them bipartisan cover.


20 posted on 10/04/2021 10:17:33 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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