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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the US shouldn't fail to service its growing national debt, while doubling down on his insistence that the GOP will oppose raising the debt ceiling.
"America must never default," the Kentucky Republican said in an interview with the Louisville Courier-Journal published Thursday.
He went on: "The debt ceiling needs to be raised. The issue is who should do it. And under these uniquely unprecedented circumstances, it's their obligation to do it. And they have the votes to do it, and they will do it."
McConnell's remarks underscored the brewing resistance among Republicans on renewing the nation's ability to pay its bills, known as the debt ceiling. The vast majority of Senate Republicans and a sizable portion of GOP lawmakers in the House say Democrats must lift the debt ceiling on their own in a social spending plan being drafted.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mitch-mcconnell-says-america-must-never-default-as-he-doubles-down-on-the-gop-refusing-to-help-democrats-raise-debt-ceiling/ar-AAOgG2c
bluedevil4
(305 posts)who cares what he says? We don't need him to do it, right?
Walleye
(30,935 posts)MiniMe
(21,708 posts)f-you Mitch.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)He is evil on steroids.
leftieNanner
(15,056 posts)to 20 BESQUILLION DOLLARS. Then we will never reach it again.
2naSalit
(86,307 posts)Says what?
Grins
(7,188 posts)What???
Since when has that been the issue? What the hell is he even talking about?