Jeffries waves aside plan to raise debt limit with House discharge petition

"The most viable option right now is for the extreme MAGA [Make America Great Again] Republicans in the House to get their act together and do what they consistently did when Donald Trump was the president of the United States of America," he told reporters Thursday at a press conference about how a national default would hurt the U.S. economy. 

Jeffries noted that "three times the House raised the debt ceiling" when Trump was president "without fanfare because the consequences of even threatening a default are so significant."…https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3914495-jeffries-waves-aside-plan-to-raise-debt-limit-with-house-discharge-petition/