GOP warns McConnell won’t blink on debt cliff
| Republicans are warning that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) won’t blink as Congress barrels toward dual fiscal debt-shutdown cliffs, with massive economic consequences.
Democrats are seeking to suspend the debt ceiling through 2022, tying it to a short-term government funding bill and disaster relief, in a move aimed at squeezing McConnell and GOP senators by bringing the fight to a head just days before the Oct. 1 deadline for preventing a government shutdown. It’s set off a high-stakes game of chicken with both the government’s ability to keep its own lights on and the nation’s credit hanging in the balance, because Democrats will need 10 GOP votes to get the bill through the Senate. |
