Biden gets involved on debt ceiling strategy with call to Pelosi, Schumer [View all]

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President Joe Biden discussed the possibility of raising the debt ceiling via budget reconciliation on Monday evening on a telephone call with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the latest sign that Democrats are searching for a way around entrenched GOP opposition.

No final decision was made on the call, according to two Democrats familiar with the conversation. Senate Republicans on Monday evening blocked Biden and congressional leaders’ plan to raise the debt ceiling through the midterms and fund the government into December, leaving Democrats fuming and searching for a way to avoid a shutdown on Friday and a default in October.

Schumer has been walking his caucus through how cumbersome the process of using the arcane budget reconciliation process to raise the debt ceiling could be and the many pitfalls ahead if leaders choose to follow that route. Schumer has warned his caucus that the gambit would be “burdensome and untenable,” according to one of the Democrats.

Senate Democrats also might need to cancel a mid-October recess to raise the debt ceiling on their own via reconciliation, which allows the party to avoid a GOP filibuster but would require negotiations with the parliamentarian and some degree of cooperation from Republicans. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell confidently predicted that Democrats will raise the debt ceiling “because we always do,” though typically both parties support an increase.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/28/biden-debt-ceiling-strategy-514469

I don't know what negotiations with the parliamentarian the author is considering.