President Obama’s spokesman today indicated his budget as the only way to avoid a debt-ceiling showdown this year, but the Senate unanimously voted against the budget today.

“The nation has never ever faced a deeper, more dangerous debt crisis than we face today,” Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said after the vote, as he praised Rep.Paul Ryan, R-Wis., for proposing a budget to put the debt on a sustainable path. “The president’s budget utterly failed in that regard.”

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