Manchin Caves To Progressives And Is Now Open To This

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Manchin Caves To Progressives And Is Now Open To This

Senator Joe Manchin announced Monday that Democrats should raise the debt ceiling through reconciliation so they're not dependent on Republican votes even as Chuck Schumer intends to bring up another doomed effort to get the GOP on board.

"They shouldn't rule out anything. We just can't let the debt ceiling lapse. We just can't," Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, told reporters on Capitol Hill. "Whatever they have to do," he continued.

Schumer, in the meantime, set a Friday deadline to get a bill raising the country's borrowing limit to President Joe Biden's desk.

The Senate Majority Leader promised to bring up a House-passed bill that would raise the debt limit through the midterms vote another vote this week.

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"We aren't asking Republicans to support it when it comes time for a vote. We only ask that they get out of the way as Democrats pass it on our own, just as the majority party did in the early 2000s," he announced in a speech on the Senate floor Monday afternoon.

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Though, in order to move that House-passed legislation forward, no less than 10 Republicans would have to vote for it. And Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has pledged none of his GOP lawmakers will do so.

Republicans have already shot down two other efforts by Democratic leaders to raise the debt ceiling this way.

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If Democrats have to raise the debt ceiling through reconciliation - the legislative process that enables them to move a bill forward with a simple majority rather than the 60-vote threshold - they would need to raise the ceiling by a certain amount. The House-passed bill, which was approved Wednesday 219-212, raises it through a particular date - December of 2022.

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If Democrats raise it by a certain amount, Republicans are certain to use that against them in the midterm elections as they attempt to retake command of Congress.

Democrats and Republicans are in a stand-off over the next move, yet, McConnell has made it clear he is standing strong.

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"Since mid-July, Republicans have clearly stated that Democrats will need to raise the debt limit on their own. All year, your party has chosen to pursue staggering, 'transformational' spending through unprecedented use of the party-line reconciliation process," McConnell wrote in a letter to Biden on Monday.

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Manchin, in the meantime, ruled out nixing the filibuster - as the 60-vote threshold is known - as he and fellow moderate Senator Kyrsten Sinema have been denounced for having too much power to stop Biden's agenda.

Under the parliamentary rules of the Senate, an individual senator has significant leverage to negotiate legislation and use their vote.

"The filibuster has nothing to do with debt ceiling. Basically, we have other tools that we can use and if we have to use them we should use them," Manchin announced.

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