Republicans Scrounge Up 11 Senators To Break Filibuster, Advancing Debt Ceiling Increase

WHy is it THAt libtards are ALWAys wanTing to BE raisinG the Debt ceiLing? They Want tO in Republican ADMinistrations and LIBtard administrations.

This isn’t governing, it is kicking the can down the road.

Hopefully, Schumer will announce the deal on the Senate floor in his usual morning remarks.

My impression is that the Senate Dem Caucus was very determined not to allow Manchin/Sinema to force them to use reconciliation. The whole notion of bending over backwards to accommodate two refuseniks at the risk of default was absurd and they made that clear to both of them. Manchin and Sinema were cornered so they used their backchannels to McConnell to cook up this deal of a 2 month delay on the debt ceiling. McConnell wanted to tie it to reconciliation. The Dem Caucus seems to have taken the Manchinema-McConnell offer and turned it to their advantage.

• The Dem Caucus told Manchinema-McConnell, ‘no dice on reconciliation’…ever.
• The Dem Caucus then told Manchinema that they will accept the 2 month delay on the debt ceiling issue but on the condition that Manchinema get to ‘yes’ on the BBB, not just the framework, but the whole bill. Manchinema appear to have agreed to this. Now, there aren’t specific press reports confirming this point, but I am inferring this assessment based on the comments from the Senate Dems who declared ‘victory’ in this standoff. To a person each Dem said they looked forward to completing the BBB and BIF during this debt ceiling extension period. I don’t think they could’ve said so without getting a commitment from Manchinema that the ‘you know who two’ would be with the caucus on this.
• Manchinema accepted the terms of the caucus for two reasons: 1. They don’t have to do a filibuster exception right now. Like McConnell, they hate and fear that more than anything. 2. They believe that if they get BBB done, the threat will likely go away because the purpose for issuing the threat (stopping BBB) will be moot as it will have passed into law.
• The caucus was ok with this plan of a 2 month delay + passage of BBB/BIF in the interim b/c they think that either McConnell will fold on the debt ceiling threat post BBB, or, if Cruz/Lee et al try to blow things up and cause a debt default, they can lean on Manchinema to vote for a filibuster exception as they will have no choice at that point.