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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Sep 26, 2021, 08:03 PM Sep 2021

GOP Sen. Toomey Admits Congress Must Raise Debt Ceiling. Blames Democrats For Debt.

Senator Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican, blames Democrats' proposed massive spending for his decision not to raise the debt ceiling. However, he also admits that the ceiling would have to be raised whether or not that spending is approved.

Nearly all Senate Republican lawmakers are expected to vote against raising the debt ceiling as Democrats aim to do this week in a bid to avoid a government shutdown. GOP leaders have argued that Democrats should pass the debt ceiling increase through the budget reconciliation process—which they could do without any Republican support. Meanwhile, Democrats have pointed out that most Republicans voted to increase the debt ceiling under former President Donald Trump—when nearly $8 trillion was added in just four years.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-sen-toomey-admits-congress-must-raise-debt-ceiling-despite-democrats-spending/ar-AAOQzNG

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GOP Sen. Toomey Admits Congress Must Raise Debt Ceiling. Blames Democrats For Debt. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2021 OP
They ALL LIE ALL THE TIME. spanone Sep 2021 #1
Even though they controlled the Senate and White House for all of Trump's term, Prof. Toru Tanaka Sep 2021 #2
Toomey is one of the authors of the GOP Tax Scam of 2017 meow2u3 Sep 2021 #3
Toomey Knows WHITT Sep 2021 #4
JMHO ppl are wise to their ways. Of course, minus the cult members! PortTack Sep 2021 #5

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(1,956 posts)
2. Even though they controlled the Senate and White House for all of Trump's term,
Sun Sep 26, 2021, 08:12 PM
Sep 2021

and the House for the first two years, it was all the Democrats fault.

meow2u3

(24,761 posts)
3. Toomey is one of the authors of the GOP Tax Scam of 2017
Sun Sep 26, 2021, 08:15 PM
Sep 2021

He's the one who wrote the tax scam behind Democrats' backs and he has the gall to blame Dems for returning their money to them? He needs to look in the mirror if he wants to see who's really to blame for blowing up the deficit.

WHITT

(2,868 posts)
4. Toomey Knows
Sun Sep 26, 2021, 08:28 PM
Sep 2021

the MAGA crowd is stupid enough to believe the Dems ran up the debt, even though Biden is only on his eighth month in office, and they're too stupid to comprehend that raising the debt ceiling is for past debt already accumulated.


PortTack

(32,762 posts)
5. JMHO ppl are wise to their ways. Of course, minus the cult members!
Sun Sep 26, 2021, 08:39 PM
Sep 2021

They want the Dems to use reconciliation so it nixes their further use the process to pass other legislation and say we had no part in the shutdown. It won’t work!

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