It’s been an exhaustive battle for nearly the past decade of the GOP and DEM fighting over the Budget. Government has been shutdown twice as well as other measures. Many can agree budgets need trimmed, but now the GOP must fight a 2 front battle; the continued DEM battle and now the White House – PB/TK
Why raising the debt ceiling won’t be easy – By Rebecca Shabad / Aug 14 2017
The White House has made raising the debt ceiling this fall seem like a simple task, but a looming conservative uprising will likely make it a highly contentious and complicated effort.
Trump administration officials have made their request to Congress crystal clear: Pass the “cleanest possible” debt limit increase despite calls from conservatives who demand spending cuts to go along with it. Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney delivered that message at a briefing with reporters earlier this month once the House had already left Capitol Hill for a month-long recess.Â
The hike, Mulvaney said, should be tied to a continuing resolution (CR) that would keep the government funded past Sept. 30 and would prevent a shutdown. This would likely extend the debt limit and government funding battle into December.
That proposal won’t fly with the conservative Freedom Caucus in the House.
“We just don’t think that’s the right approach,” a Freedom Caucus source told CBS News. “Why when we have Republicans in the House, the Senate and the White House are we doing what we criticized Democrats for doing for eight years, which is just clean raising of the debt ceiling without big structural reforms?”
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