Republicans in the Senate have shown very little inclination to get involved in the debt ceiling deadlock that is threatening to unleash fiscal havoc on the country.
Late last year, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was angered after over a dozen Republicans in the Senate went along with an omnibus spending package instead of delaying a vote until the GOP reclaimed the House. This go around, there appears to be little appetite among Senate Republicans to cross him."Republicans, we in the Senate, stand with the House. We have our point of view. Time for the president to step in and say his point of view and do a deal," Sen. Mitt Romney told reporters.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell seemingly deferred to McCarthy on the debt ceiling back in January. Publicly, he has ripped Biden for not budging and largely refrained from criticizing McCarthy, though he recently emphasized that the Limit, Save, Grow Act was a nonstarter in the Senate. McCarthy managed to wrangle through the Limit, Save, Grow Act as his plan to raise the limit on the nation's borrowing authority in exchange for a heap of spending cuts, a proposal roundly rejected by Democrats. Biden has been adamant that anything other than a clean debt ceiling bill is unacceptable to him.
Ted Cruz on Fox News accuses Joe Biden of behaving like a"terrorist" because he won't negotiate with Kevin McCarthy over the debt ceiling pic.twitter.com/K0xzCrJGDe
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