Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell shows no signs of cracking as President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats squeeze Republicans to support raising the federal debt limit just days before the United States exhausts its borrowing power.
The Kentucky Republican is urging Senate Democrats to include a provision to raise the debt ceiling in Biden’s $3.5 trillion “reconciliation” spending package, legislation protected from the filibuster that requires just 51 votes to clear. This week, as Biden expressed cautious optimism McConnell would acquiesce, the Senate minority leader flatly declared nothing has changed since summer, when he first warned Democrats no Republican support for increasing the U.S. Treasury’s borrowing limit was forthcoming.
