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Democrats set up chaotic end-of-year stretch - The Hill
Oct 11, 2021 3 mins, 2 secs
Dick DurbinDick DurbinThe Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Facebook - After high drama, Senate lifts debt limit The Memo: New Trump revelations bolster critics while fans shrug Biden says he has directed DOJ to focus on violence from unruly airline passengers MORE (Ill.), the No.

Joe ManchinJoe ManchinInternal battles heat up over Biden agenda Sunday shows preview: Senate votes to raise debt ceiling; Facebook whistleblower blasts company during testimony Growing number of Democrats endorse abolishing debt limit altogether MORE (D-W.Va.) over Biden’s social spending measure.

Kyrsten SinemaKyrsten SinemaMcConnell vows GOP won't help raise debt ceiling in December after Schumer 'tantrum' The Hill's 12:30 Report: House interrupts recess for debt ceiling vote Daydreaming about Kyrsten Sinema MORE (D-Ariz.), another moderate Sanders has urged to be more specific, should get in the room together to hash things out.

Sanders is refusing to acknowledge a price tag below $3.5 trillion, while Congressional Progressive Caucus Chairwoman Pramila JayapalPramila JayapalIlhan Omar to Biden: 'Deliver on your promise to cancel student debt' The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Facebook - After high drama, Senate lifts debt limit A proud year for Biden and progressives MORE (D-Wash.) is pushing for a bill around $3 trillion.

Jared GoldenJared GoldenOn The Money — Presented by NRHC — Senate slowly walks back from debt disaster Moderate Democrat says he can't back House spending plan 'in its current form' Club for Growth squeezes front-line Democrats on reconciliation plan MORE (D-Maine) said some of his constituents are “sick of the bickering” and want Congress to “stop fighting and sort it out.”.

This is not a baseball game,” Sanders said, asked if the deal to put the debt ceiling put pressure on Democrats to get the social spending bill done quickly.

Senate Majority Leader Charles SchumerChuck SchumerSunday shows preview: Senate votes to raise debt ceiling; Facebook whistleblower blasts company during testimony The parts of Manchin's voting act you haven't heard about The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Facebook - After high drama, Senate lifts debt limit MORE (D-N.Y.) is doubling down on his pledge that Democrats won’t use reconciliation — a budget process that lets them bypass the 60-vote legislative filibuster — to pass a long-term debt hike later this year.

The votes are tough politically for Democrats because they have to raise the debt ceiling to a number instead of suspending it to a date.

“The solution is for Republicans to either join us in raising the debt limit or stay out of the way and let Democrats address the debt limit ourselves,” Schumer said.

While 11 Republicans helped Senate Democrats overcome a key procedural hurdle on the debt ceiling last week, they are vowing they won’t do so again.

The move, GOP senators argue, was designed to take pressure off changes to the filibuster and prove Democrats had time to raise the debt ceiling on their own under the budget rules.

Schumer also rankled the GOP senators he’ll need in December with a fiery speech he gave just before the Senate passed the short-term debt hike.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellSunday shows preview: Senate votes to raise debt ceiling; Facebook whistleblower blasts company during testimony Growing number of Democrats endorse abolishing debt limit altogether McConnell vows GOP won't help raise debt ceiling in December after Schumer 'tantrum' MORE (R-Ky.) — who has faced criticism from his own members for proposing the short-term debt hike — vowed in a phone call and letter to Biden that Republicans will not help raise the debt ceiling in December.

“Your lieutenants on Capitol Hill now have the time they claimed they lacked to address the debt ceiling through standalone reconciliation.

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