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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP 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 processwhich 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 Trumpwhen nearly $8 trillion was added in just four years.
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spanone
(135,831 posts)Prof. Toru Tanaka
(1,956 posts)and the House for the first two years, it was all the Democrats fault.
meow2u3
(24,761 posts)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)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)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 wont work!