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Congress, world-renowned for its speedy problem-solving, has only a few months at best to figure out a solution to the crisis they keep creating.
I hate how they pretend to care about the national debt. Is there anyone left who believes this scam? >

The same people who believe trickle down and that by bringing in less money and increasing spending can reduce the deficit.  It's getting to the point where you have to be old to remember any time republicans might have cared about the budget. You would have to go back to before Reagan to find a republican who didn't explode the deficit. So I would assume that 90% of people who believe republicans care about the deficit are older. It's kind of hard to convince 30 and 40 year olds that republicans are good for the deficit despite republicans never reducing the deficits when in power once in our lives. >

I looked it up once and if my reading of the particular chart I was reading was correct.  I believe Eisenhower was the last Republican president who had a deficit leaving office lower than the deficit they came into office with.  Which makes sense, he's the last Republican I would have voted for >

I wasn't sure if it was Eisenhower but I knew it was pre Reagan. If Eisenhower were to run today supporting strong labor unions, and speaking against the military industrial complex like he did, he would be a dem. it's crazy that a republican from the 50s was more for labor unions, and against military spending than either party is today. The country has shifted so far right in the last 70 years it's hard to even recognize the post war 1950s society compared to today. >

Eisenhower wasn’t against military spending, he just famously condemned the industry, despite helping to shovel the majority of our national spending into that area. Eisenhower wasn’t nearly as bad as modern GOP but he wasn’t a saint just for his one quote against the MIC >

$5 bet Boebert and Gaetz use their sought after, special house rules to oust the speaker, with the help of a few buddies, the moment a bipartisan agreement is reached on the debt ceiling. >

They don't have to even do it, just threaten they will. >


They don't have to even do it, just threaten they will.

Very true. Apparently, the fed maybe able to go to the courts and get the debt ceiling declared unconstitutional. I honestly think they should do this and then mint the coin. >

mint the trillion coin >

Why do we only hear about the Debt Ceiling when Republicans are in charge of something? I feel like there's a trend but I just cannot put my finger on it... >

The GOP plan is to hold the debt ceiling hostage in exchange for "balancing the budget" by eliminating domestic spending, including what little safety net we have. I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted student loans to be paid in full on a shortened timeline under threat of penalty. The plan really is to have a massive underclass living constantly under the shadow of poverty and thereby deprive us of what power and dignity we have as humans in exchange for living like dictators protected by oligarchs, foreign interests, and megacorporations. >

In regards to student loans, I wouldn’t be surprised if Republicans somehow were able to force those with the loans to pay back all the months from the pause in full. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if they bring back debtors prison or work houses.