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Time Is Running Out for Democrats to Combat GOP Threat to Social Security and Medicare
10/21/2022 9:38:00 PM
House Democrats urge Pelosi and Schumer to permanently undo the threat posed by the debt limit
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Republicans will weaponize the debt ceiling the first chance they get, so Democrats must get rid of it while they can to protect Social Security and Medicare. House Democrats urge Pelosi and Schumer to permanently undo the threat posed by the debt limit — the limit “serves no good economic purpose and plenty of malign ones.”Bivens argued that the “leverage the debt ceiling provides to those looking to enforce austerity is its greatest — and often most-overlooked — danger,” pointing to the GOP’s past success in securing passage of economically damaging legislation during debt limit fights.“It is obvious that the U.S. should join the vast majority of rich countries around the world who don’t have a debt ceiling,” Bivens wrote. “It would be most straightforward if Congress would abolish it straightaway.”Fresh calls for Democrats to put a stop to the annual fights over the debt ceiling come as Republicans are vocally threatening to oppose raising the current borrowing limit of around $31.4 trillion — which the government is set to hit sometime next year — in order to force spending cuts, Read more:
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