The White House and Democrats are upping their rhetoric against the GOP after House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) demanded dollar-for-dollar budget savings before raising the debt ceiling again.
In Wednesday’s briefing, White House spokesman Jay Carney said President Obama won’t accept any ultimatums on raising the debt ceiling that would “recreate the self-inflicted political wounds that nearly collapsed the economy last summer.”
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (MD), the Dems’ top budget man, echoed the charge Wednesday.
“Republicans have rejected the balanced approach that every bipartisan group has proposed, and now the Speaker of the House is out there again creating a self-inflicted wound on the economy,” he told Bloomberg TV. “This is a manufactured crisis, just like it was last August, but it is not harmless.”
