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Schumer on debt ceiling battle: ‘I think we’ll win’
The Hill ^ | 01-30-2023 | STEPHEN NEUKAM

Posted on 01/30/2023 6:34:01 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Lawmakers are on a crash course over how to deal with the debt limit in the coming weeks, and it’s a collision that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) thinks Democrats will win.

Schumer has hammered House Republican for demanding spending cuts from Democrats and the White House in exchange for raising the debt limit, saying the GOP is “flirting with disaster.”

“The plan is to get our Republican colleagues in the House to understand they’re flirting with disaster and hurting the American people,” Schumer said in an interview with Politico. “And to let the American people understand that as well. And I think we’ll win.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: batter; ceiling; debt; schumer
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To: neverevergiveup

Putting America into bankruptcy so the Branch Davosonians can take over.


21 posted on 01/30/2023 7:04:49 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Because a bunch of panty waisted will fold


22 posted on 01/30/2023 7:07:27 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: neverevergiveup

If your goal is to destroy the once great United States with its economic freedoms, individual liberties, and private property rights, then, yes, that’s a ‘Win’.


23 posted on 01/30/2023 7:11:02 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Schumer on debt ceiling battle: ‘I think we’ll win’

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Oh I KNOW you’ll win. What is your record on these battles? 100 wins to 0 losses over the past several decades?


24 posted on 01/30/2023 7:13:19 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The GOP should shut down the government until they get 100% of what they want. Period. Don’t worry about “blame”, just shut r down.


25 posted on 01/30/2023 7:14:45 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: lgjhn23

Or is it because the RATS don’t really have any real opposition?

The RATS know the Repukes always cave. They just put up token resistance, which is enough to fool the gullible Republican voters into believing that their party is putting up a fight. Its nothing but a show.


26 posted on 01/30/2023 7:24:50 AM PST by Starboard
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“WE’ll win”

WE means the DC SWAMP and NOT the taxpayers.


27 posted on 01/30/2023 7:27:08 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s not a win pond scum, and you might be a dumbass if you think that.


28 posted on 01/30/2023 7:36:27 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who is “we”?


29 posted on 01/30/2023 7:43:07 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself. 111 is the key.)
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To: SaxxonWoods
Who is “we”?

The enemy.

30 posted on 01/30/2023 7:44:08 AM PST by Allegra
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why is anyone asking Chuck about this? He can only respond to what he gets from the House and the House hasn’t sent anything yet. The House has promised single issue bills and none of the OmniFuch stuff that has been passing as legislation.


31 posted on 01/30/2023 7:54:28 AM PST by Savage Rider
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To: Sacajaweau

He’s right.
Democrats play to win.
Republicans play for the participation trophy.


32 posted on 01/30/2023 7:55:17 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Republicans need to take control of the narrative and keep the American people informed of the importance of substantially cutting spending.


33 posted on 01/30/2023 7:57:24 AM PST by elpadre (nd )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
They'll win like in destroying America financially? Voters of NY you should be ashamed of yourselves.
34 posted on 01/30/2023 7:58:13 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
This is all Kabuki. The US can't and won't default because it can always print more money.

Biden must have Obama's list of the few things that the US gov't does that real taxpayers actually enjoy. Remember Obama closing down the national parks and road pulloffs to look at sights like Mount Rushmore?

It's winter, and the middle of the school year, so Biden has fewer opportunities. But there are probably a few ski areas and parks in warm parts of the country that he can shut down.


35 posted on 01/30/2023 8:01:56 AM PST by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” ("Every nation has the government it deserves.”) )
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To: sjmjax
There really isn't any choice. Shutting down the government would kill us in this economy. Our work is ahead of us and we'll have to bend to this...like it or not. The monies have been allocated.

Our work begins right after the ceiling is raised...and we're working on the next budget allotments. And remember....Joe has that pen....

36 posted on 01/30/2023 8:03:04 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What do ‘we’ win? If the debt makes no difference than make it a bizillion or better yet don’t have one at all.


37 posted on 01/30/2023 9:02:45 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Lawmakers are on a crash course over how to deal with the debt limit in the coming weeks, and it’s a collision that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) thinks Democrats will win.”

If this is about winners and losers, the American people are the losers and Chuck gets his 2% off the top.


38 posted on 01/30/2023 9:16:18 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (“Racist” is the new “Nazi”.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Schumer on debt ceiling battle: ‘I think we’ll win’

This is a certainty.

39 posted on 01/30/2023 9:41:24 AM PST by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: Jim Noble

“This is a certainty.”

It sure is. The short-term “I get money now” always beats “fiscal austerity from now and continuing for a decade or more”.

Its why payday loans, as obvious a bad idea as they are under almost all circumstances, flourish as a business. We are collectively stupid and have no ability to defer gratification.

Only after the austerity is forced upon America will anyone lament what we are doing now and have done in the past.

Democrats are the “JG Wentworth of politics”.


40 posted on 01/30/2023 10:01:13 AM PST by RFEngineer
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