'If Democrats couldn’t get 50 votes to raise the debt limit when it was attached to trillions in goodies for Democratic donors, what makes anyone think they have 50 votes to pass a clean debt limit now?' -conncarroll
After House Republicans passed legislation that raises the federal government’s debt limit, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters, “Avoiding default is Congress’s responsibility, and they should act on it without preconditions, as they have done in Democratic and Republican administrations.”
Democrats only control 51 votes in the Senate, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein is currently too ill to vote. That brings them down to 50. That means Democrats have, at most, 49 votes for a clean debt limit hike. But could they even get that many? If Democrats couldn’t get 50 votes to raise the debt limit when it was attached to trillions in goodies for Democratic donors, what makes anyone think they have 50 votes to pass a clean debt limit now?
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