Republicans start pondering another debt limit hike as midterms loom - Live Updates - POLITICO

 Republicans raised the debt limit by $5 trillion last year. Now they are already thinking about how to head off another dive over the fiscal cliff on President Donald Trump’s watch…

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/29/congress/debt-limit-reconciliation-01015197

 

Sen. Whitehouse Rips Republican "Fakery" in Beautiful-for-Billionaires Bill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrCLZIyVs3I

 

Disney cancels $1 billion campus, over Don’t Say Gay bill. (Anthony Davis; Five Minute News podcast)

Disney cancels $1 billion campus, over Don’t Say Gay bill. False claims of a stolen election thrive on Twitter even as Musk promises otherwise. Debt default could trigger recession, Vice President warns.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-ipbhe-186a9f40

What the GOP doesn’t understand about Biden’s debt ceiling position

If Republicans' confusion about the White House's position on the debt ceiling is sincere, there's probably value in helping clarify matters for them...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gop-doesnt-understand-bidens-debt-ceiling-position-rcna82844

Chairman Whitehouse: MAGA Republican Hostage Taking Is the Definition of Extremism

May 4 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, delivers opening remarks at a Budget Committee hearing entitled, "The Default on America Act: Blackmail, Brinkmanship, and Billionaire Backroom Deals."

MAGA Republicans’ dangerous bill proposes a terrible choice: default on our financial obligations, cause widespread pain and wreck our economy, or gut basic federal programs essential to our economic strength, cause widespread pain, and wreck our economy.
Interview: 

https://youtu.be/nG43W0z9WzY

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/

GOP plan to cut Social Security, Medicare in 2023 comes into view

With 27 days remaining before Election Day, the takeaway for voters seems painfully obvious: Republicans not only intend to demand Social Security and Medicare cuts, they have a radical plan to achieve their goals that puts both our economy and the full faith and credit of the United States in jeopardy...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gop-plan-cut-social-security-medicare-2023-comes-view-rcna51865

U.S. Senate agenda includes Biden investment plan, debt limit, voting rights -Schumer | Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate faces a heavy legislative agenda in the remaining weeks of 2021 as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned of possible long sessions to finish President Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" investment bill, raise the debt limit and consider voting rights reforms...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-agenda-includes-biden-investment-plan-debt-limit-voting-rights-schumer-2021-12-06/

“Not my default.” (Pod Save America podcast)

Mitch McConnell decides that he won’t plunge the nation into a catastrophic recession for at least two more months, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Sean Patrick Maloney joins to talk about the party’s midterm strategy, and Dan and Jon rate bad takes on a scale of 1-to-4 Politicos in a new game called The Take Appreciators.

Interview:

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-jcpxp-10672ec7

Opinion | Democrats must again keep Republicans from causing a debt limit catastrophe - The Washington Post

…The GOP has come close to blowing up the global financial system through a debt default before, and the party has only grown more nihilistic in the years since…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/20/once-again-democrats-must-be-grown-ups-keep-republicans-causing-global-catastrophe/

Republicans Pledge To Oppose Paying Debts They Voted For | HuffPost

… Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen noted that the "vast majority of the debt subject to the debt limit was accrued prior" to President Joe Biden taking office. Yellen has said hitting the debt ceiling would cause "irreparable harm to the U.S. economy and the livelihoods of all Americans." The government could wind up unable to pay bondholders or beneficiaries of programs like Social Security retirement insurance…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-debt-limit_n_612d410ee4b06e5d80d085da

Democrats slam McConnell over debt limit timebomb - POLITICO

McConnell said he doesn't expect any Republican senators to vote to prevent the U.S. government from defaulting on its loans in the coming weeks…

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/21/democrats-mcconnell-debt-limit-500457