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Andrew H. Card Jr., then the White House chief of staff, began working the phones. He soon found two Democrats willing to break ranks and vote to put the legislation over the top. But instead of thanking him, the Senate leader grew irate. Mr. McConnell had been hoping to extract concessions from President George W. Bush as the price for uniting Republicans around lifting the limit.
I dont need your damned votes, he snapped at Mr. Card. He lifted the debt ceiling with Republicans only.
Mr. Card never learned what the Kentucky Republican wanted, but he tells the story for a reason: Mr. McConnell has long used the periodic need to raise the governments borrowing limit as a moment of leverage to secure a policy win, as have leaders of both parties.
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ColinC
(8,277 posts)He and the rest of the GOP know that both the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation bill will be great for the economy, and a good economy will make it hard for Republicans to campaign against the Democrats in 2022 and 2024. They're putting the country's future in jeopardy for their own personal political gain.
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)Rhiannon12866
(204,644 posts)cstanleytech
(26,222 posts)FBaggins
(26,714 posts)The easy answer is that he wants to blame Democrats for the increase in the debt - but that's not really it.
By using reconciliation, we have to pick a new debt limit figure... which will be many trillions higher than the last figure. They will spin this as proving that Biden is lying about the true cost of his programs.
2 Meow Momma
(6,682 posts)us for setting a precedent when, in his twisted mind, he does his own work-around when he is majority leader. He still blames Reid for dropping the filibuster for judicial nominations as the turtle drops it for SCOTUS.
andym
(5,442 posts)Patton French
(742 posts)According to Dana Bash on CNN.