Democrats respond to GOP calls for debt ceiling negotiations: No

What makes the debt ceiling qualitatively different is that this isn't a policy dispute. What Republicans are doing is manufacturing a hostage crisis, effectively telling Democrats that the GOP is prepared to harm Americans on purpose unless their demands are met. For all intents and purposes, it is a Republican extortion scheme… 

"I don't know why President Biden says he's not going to negotiate," House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry recently told ABC News. As it happens, there's no great mystery here. 

Not to put too fine a point on this, but it's not just that the president won't engage in talks with Republican hostage takers, it's that he can't: To negotiate with those threatening Americans is to encourage others to threaten Americans…

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