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Senate Democrats indicate they'll accept GOP debt ceiling offer: 'McConnell caved'
Fox Business ^ | 25 mins ago 10/6/21 | Thomas Barrabi

Posted on 10/06/2021 3:07:49 PM PDT by conservative98

Democrats spoke out after a closed-door meeting in which they discussed McConnell’s offer to raise the debt ceiling by a "fixed dollar amount" through December. Republicans had blocked efforts to suspend the borrowing limit for weeks, arguing Democrats should address the crisis through the budget reconciliation process.

"McConnell caved," Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. told reporters after the meeting. "And now we're going to spend our time doing child care, health care, and fighting climate change."

"Mitch folded and we have until December to do Build Back Better. And we will," Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., wrote on Twitter.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: americanmarxism; debt; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell; resign
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1 posted on 10/06/2021 3:07:49 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Oh course the Turdle caved.


2 posted on 10/06/2021 3:09:04 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: conservative98

But American Marxists I love!!!!!
3 posted on 10/06/2021 3:09:12 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

a republican folded?

no way....

(/s)


4 posted on 10/06/2021 3:09:25 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said thein story was false!)
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He did not “cave”. He planned this all along, and he and Schumer are laughing it up behind the scenes at the electorate they no longer need.


5 posted on 10/06/2021 3:11:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Makes me sick. Politics make me sick. I will remember this.


6 posted on 10/06/2021 3:12:47 PM PDT by hoe_cake (A Descendant of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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To: conservative98

Also, Build Back Better is such a stupid slogan and is not proper English.


7 posted on 10/06/2021 3:15:03 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: hoe_cake

He’s been doing this to America and us Conservatives, for decades. Isn’t John Hinckley and Sirhan getting out soon?


8 posted on 10/06/2021 3:16:14 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: conservative98

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9 posted on 10/06/2021 3:17:12 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: conservative98

Democrats will be able to claim that McConnell’s approval made their debt ceiling hike, bipartisan.


10 posted on 10/06/2021 3:17:20 PM PDT by adorno
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To: conservative98

McConnell is a known and recognized spelunker.


11 posted on 10/06/2021 3:18:54 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: carriage_hill

Lord, how we need to drain the swamp.


12 posted on 10/06/2021 3:19:13 PM PDT by hoe_cake (A Descendant of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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To: conservative98

I don’t see ‘child care, health care and climate change’ in the enumerated powers.


13 posted on 10/06/2021 3:20:02 PM PDT by bakeneko
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To: bakeneko

good point


14 posted on 10/06/2021 3:20:41 PM PDT by hoe_cake (A Descendant of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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To: hoe_cake

“I don’t see ‘child care, health care and climate change’ in the enumerated powers.”

It is such a friggin game to politicians. We are helpless to change this, IMO.


15 posted on 10/06/2021 3:22:20 PM PDT by hoe_cake (A Descendant of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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To: conservative98

Did we get anything out of this deal? If not what makes this a “deal” and not a lifeline to the Democrats.


16 posted on 10/06/2021 3:23:24 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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To: conservative98
How much extra did he add? I would have preferred that he just add enough to get through next year without any of Biden's stimulus and infrastructure bills. That way the Dems wouldn't be able to hold the country's credit rating hostage to get their way. Also, you know spending won't be restricted any until the Republicans can take the House and Senate, so there is no reason to extend just a few months at a time to allow the Democrats multiple times to take the country hostage.

. "And now we're going to spend our time doing child care, health care, and fighting climate change." "Mitch folded and we have until December to do Build Back Better. And we will,"

Now there is another deadline for a combined debt limit increase and spending frenzy. Just remove the chance for the Dems to set that deadline.

17 posted on 10/06/2021 3:24:50 PM PDT by KarlInOhio ("Anti-fascist" is from the official name of the Berlin Wall: Anti-fascist Protection Barrier.)
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To: conservative98

That’s why we don’t have nice things!!


18 posted on 10/06/2021 3:27:02 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans; All

Hang on, hang on. No need to jump off a cliff. Redstate spells out the game.

And here’s some D reactions of the situation into which Mitch has painted the Ds.

Durbin: “I don’t like using reconciliation for the debt ceiling.”

Murphy: “My God, that sounds like a terrible idea...Just pushing this crisis off for a couple months sounds like a disaster.”

Hirono: “It’s bullshit.”


19 posted on 10/06/2021 3:27:45 PM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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To: tennmountainman

He’s a retreater, just like the rest of his party.


20 posted on 10/06/2021 3:27:50 PM PDT by Starboard
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