Debt Limit Q&A - FactCheck.org

… "Addressing the debt limit is about meeting obligations the government has already made, like the bipartisan emergency COVID relief legislation from December as well as vital payments to Social Security recipients and our veterans," Schumer and Pelosi said in their Sept. 20 statement. In a floor speech that day, Schumer said: "Anyone who says this is Democratic debt is not talking fact. They're talking fiction."…

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