{"id":847179,"date":"2021-10-05T00:14:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T04:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=847179"},"modified":"2021-10-05T00:14:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T04:14:25","slug":"senate-leaders-face-off-in-fight-over-debt-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-leaders-face-off-in-fight-over-debt-ceiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate leaders face-off in fight over debt ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-leaders-face-off-in-fight-over-debt-ceiling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=847179&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2539963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2539963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, with Republican Senators John Barrasso (left) and John Thune (right), arrives to speak to reporters after the Republican policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.cC) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 8:10 PM PT \u2013 Monday, October 4, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The debate has heated up in the upper chamber as senators from both sides sparred over the debt ceiling. On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took aim at one another amid the battle over who had control over the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer pointed his finger at Republicans by blaming the GOP for the U.S. legislature\u2019s failure to fully fund the government by the start of the new fiscal year. He threatened if Republicans weren\u2019t willing to pass the Democrat-led bills, Democrats would use their slim majorities to truck the bills through both chambers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe aren\u2019t asking Republicans to support it when it comes time for a vote. We only ask that they get out of the way as Democrats pass it on our own, just as the majority party did in the early 2000s,\u201d he stated. \u201c\u2026If Republicans want to vote to stop payments from going to Social Security recipients or veterans, then be my guest, but they ought to get out of the way and let the legislation pass the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Republicans are the party of economic disaster<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> was crystal clear this morning: If Republicans don\u2019t get out of the way, our government will likely default for the first time ever<\/p>\n<p>I will set up a cloture vote to move forward the House-passed bill to suspend the debt limit<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1445127653997137920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, McConnell pointed out Democrats were having a tough time passing their agenda, despite controlling both chambers of Congress and the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis unified Democratic government is having trouble governing. It couldn\u2019t even pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which the president negotiated and the Speaker of the House promised it would pass last week,\u201d he expressed. \u201cThe majority needs to stop sleepwalking toward yet another preventable crisis. Democrats need to tackle the debt limit. We gave them a roadmap and three months notice. I suggest that our colleagues get moving.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeaderMcConnell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LeaderMcConnell<\/a>: On Debt Limit, Democrats Are Sleepwalking Toward Another Avoidable Crisis <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/478AR9LydG\">https:\/\/t.co\/478AR9LydG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Y2TPncOBs\">https:\/\/t.co\/7Y2TPncOBs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator McConnell Press (@McConnellPress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McConnellPress\/status\/1445123743643226118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Kentucky Republican also called out Democrats for forgetting their own history of voting against raising the debt ceiling. He cited Democrats \u201clined up to oppose debt limit increases during a unified Republican government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey pretended these votes are always bipartisan. Well, that was simply not true,\u201d he asserted. \u201cSo now our colleagues have moved on to yet another new argument that is equally flimsy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schumer moved to vote on raising the debt ceiling on Wednesday. However, experts warn the measure would likely not pass as Democrats would need 10 GOP senators to break from party lines to bypass the filibuster.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/president-trump-sets-up-maga-again-pac-to-support-gop-auditions\/\">President Trump Sets Up \u2018MAGA Again\u2019 PAC To Support GOP Auditions<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, with Republican Senators John Barrasso (left) and John Thune (right), arrives to speak to reporters after the Republican policy luncheon at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}