Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer criticized his House counterpart Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), for the lack of a plan to address the debt ceiling crisis.
Schumer reiterated the Democrats' long-standing position that lifting the debt limit should come in a"clean bill" and criticized Republicans for not providing specifics in their demands for spending cuts."Where is your plan, Mr. McCarthy? He says he wants cuts. We ask him which ones. He won't say any," Schumer said on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos."Is it Social Security and Medicare? That would hurt the American people.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell recently accused Schumer of hypocrisy for how Democrats leaned on the debt limit for leverage in negotiations with the Trump administration. On Jan. 19, the U.S. hit its statutory limit on its borrowing authority. In response, the Treasury Department began undertaking"extraordinary" measures to pay the nation's current obligations while Congress scrambles to find a solution.
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