Dems and GOP scrimmage continues
Democrats and Republicans continue to scrimmage in Congress over the debt ceiling as the debate nears the default line. On Tuesday, a solid step occurred when the Rules Committee voted 7 to 6 to pass a procedural hurdle. Now the bill needs a simple majority vote, but that means getting over an impasse established by both parties.
The bill will be delivered on Wednesday to a full house, where it will be greeted by rejection—the Democrats expressing concerns about food for the elderly and the gas pipeline across Virginia and West Virginia; the Republicans, particularly some 30 of them, opposed because they have lost trust in Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House.
McCarthy conceded that the Republicans had been “outsmarted by the Democrats.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said she was inclined to support the bipartisan proposal, insisting on a commitment from GOP leaders to move several other future proposals, including impeachment of President Biden.
As the evening vote nears, there appear to be 150 votes on both sides of the aisle, which means Biden must get all the Democratic votes to offset the Republican vote. If the bill makes it through the House by some stroke of good luck, the challenge remains in the Senate.
At press time on Wednesday afternoon, the scrimmage continued.
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