Senate Dems Considering Nixing Filibuster To Raise Debt Limit

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The downside to using reconciliation other time is that the Democrats will have to specify a dollar amount of the increase in the National Debt.

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Frustrated with Republicans’ refusal to help them raise the debt limit on their own, Senate Democrats are reportedly considering doing away with the filibuster in order to allow the debt limit be increased with a simple majority.

NBC News reported that the proposed new carve out for the filibuster is gaining traction among Senate Democrats.

Senate Democrats’ consideration of the filibuster carve out comes as Republicans are expected to filibuster the the cloture vote tomorrow on the House-passed debt limit bill. Republicans continue to insist that Democrats raise it on their own through reconciliation, but Democratic leaders have pushed back, saying that the process would take weeks. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that the country could face “catastrophic” risks if Congress doesn’t raise the debt limit by Oct. 18.

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1. Do it

Opens door for voting rights!

[jimfields33]

5. I think back to the change senator Reid did with judges

Didn’t turn out great when. Trump was president.

[DrToast]

2. They should, but

The downside to using reconciliation other time is that the Democrats will have to specify a dollar amount of the increase in the National Debt.

This isn’t really a problem because they could set the limit to $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 etc. and the debt ceiling would effectively be gone forever.

[gopiscrap]

3. please do

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Joe Biden , asked about using the nuclear option to create a filibuster carve-out to lift the debt

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[onecaliberal]

6. Raise the debt limit, do anything else you can do.