GOP Complains That Biden Administration Won't Negotiate With Terrorists On Debt Limit [View all]
The looming standoff over the debt limit has been telegraphed for months. And now, just days into the new Congress, it has arrived.
Republicans have made their intentions clear since at least October: Take the debt limit hostage as a bargaining chip, demanding cuts to programs the party has long sought to slash, such as Medicare and Social Security.
The White House has repeatedly said it won’t play ball, and did so again after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned the U.S. would hit the debt limit Thursday, and that her department would begin “extraordinary measures” to continue to fulfill the U.S.’s obligations. “There is going to be no negotiation over it,” White House Press Secretary Karinne Jean-Pierre said. “This is something that must get done.”
Yet Republicans, having captured their hostage, were not keen to take no for an answer.
“When President Biden says he’s just going to refuse to negotiate with Republicans on any concessions, I don’t think that’s right either,” said Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) in an interview with ABC This Week on Sunday.
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Whaaaaaa? He's refusing to negotiate? Do we really shoot the hostage now? Are Americans dumb enough to believe Biden forced us to shoot the hostage?
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