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All 211 House Republicans present on Tuesday voted against a bill to suspend the debt ceiling, avert a partial government shutdown, and fund disaster relief.
Without action to address the debt limit, the nation is just days from a default that could do massive damage to the economy and cost millions of jobs.
"This is absolutely reckless. Suspending the debt limit enables Pelosi Democrats to continue their out-of-control spending spree and force their socialist agenda on the American people, all without a plan to pay for it," claimed Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK).
The bill, which passed the House on a party-line vote, would suspend the debt ceiling until December 2022 and would keep the government running for the next 10 weeks. The move is necessary to pay for spending Congress has already approved and the interest on the more than $28.7 trillion the Treasury has borrowed to cover those costs.
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gab13by13
(20,867 posts)it is to be expected. When Barack Obama won, Mitch McConnell met with a group of Republicans and they vowed to obstruct, block, vote against every Democratic proposal. When word of that leaked out I told myself that was suicide, would never work putting party over country. Well these many years later that tactic is still in place. What Republicans did was demonize every Democrat, they made every Democrat the enemy, made them traitors, made it a war, us v them, and it fooled me because it worked pretty well. When you see T-shirts that say I'd rather be a Russian than a Democrat the strategy paid off.
It didn't work so well with a pandemic though, but they are still trying to make it work at the expense of dead followers.
Demsrule86
(68,352 posts)What did you expect to happen?
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,485 posts)Especially the ones who did vote for him. He lies to them and they fall for them. Those who did not vote for him, he couldn't care less.
He likes to boast on his Facebook page how hard he is working for them by "owning the Libs.". He continues to vote AGAINST doing what is best for the constituents and the country. Talk about being a lap dog for Kevin McCarthy and TFG.