President Biden is preparing to take the battle to raise the debt ceiling directly to some of the Republican lawmakers whose votes could become crucial.
May 8, 2023, 8:30 AM UTCWASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden meets with the top Republican leaders in Congress this week to discuss the debt ceiling in an effort to avoid a catastrophic default on the nation’s debt, he’s also preparing to take the fight directly to some of the rank-and-file GOP lawmakers whose votes could become crucial.
Democrats have referred to the GOP debt bill — which is dead on arrival in the Democratic-led Senate — as the “Default on America Act.” Ahead of Biden’s visit, Lawler stood by his vote for the GOP package, which represented the opening bid in negotiations that have yet to gain steam. Asked whether he could support a two-year increase put forward by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Lawler said he was “not going to talk about hypotheticals.”
A new White House analysis of the GOP debt bill’s potential impacts argued that benefits would be cut for tens of thousands of veterans across a sampling of 18 congressional districts if the GOP vision became law — most of them the same swing seats.“There’s nothing in the bill that specifically cuts anything,” said Lawler, whose district in the lower Hudson River Valley borders one of the state’s largest VA medical centers.
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