“Senate Republicans are happy to leave the hard work on averting a cataclysmic debt default this year to the House’s new speaker,” Politico reports.
“After Kevin McCarthy whacked last month’s Senate GOP leadership-backed $1.7 trillion spending plan, upper-chamber Republicans are sitting out the early days of what’s shaping up as a standoff between their House counterparts and President Joe Biden. A handful of Senate Republicans helped twice raise the debt ceiling in 2021, and four of those members said on Monday they have no intention of stepping into the breach this time.”
“In other words, the Senate’s bipartisan gangs aren’t riding to the rescue on the debt ceiling — yet.”
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