{"id":9354,"date":"2022-11-20T17:16:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T17:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9354"},"modified":"2022-11-20T17:16:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T17:16:26","slug":"democrats-have-the-chance-to-prevent-an-economic-calamity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9354","title":{"rendered":"Democrats have the chance to prevent an economic calamity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The US is currently projected to hit its existing debt ceiling sometime in 2023, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center<\/a>. While raising the ceiling should be relatively straightforward, it\u2019s become a contentious process \u2014 and an opportunity for the minority party to extract policy concessions or score political points. Both parties have used debt ceiling increases to their advantage, but Republicans have done so much more frequently in recent years<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2011, for example, Republicans balked on suspending the debt limit and refused to move forward until President Barack Obama agreed to key spending cuts, concessions they ultimately secured. The US got so close to default that year, however, that Standard and Poor\u2019s downgraded<\/a> the country\u2019s credit rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Political experts note that this disagreement marked one of the first times it seemed like lawmakers were actually willing to go over the edge, despite the economic chaos that could ensue. Were the US to actually default, that would likely downgrade the dollar and lead to a recession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While a default has never happened, Republicans\u2019 behavior in 2011 \u2014 and their current rhetoric \u2014 suggests that they\u2019re more open to the possibility and taking such fights to that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats, including in the White House, are reportedly considering preempting this worst-case scenario by tackling the debt ceiling this winter, according to Axios<\/a>. The White House has denied that such conversations are happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also still questions about what a debt ceiling bill could look like. While some lawmakers including Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and a group of prominent House Democrats<\/a>, have expressed support for doing away with the debt ceiling altogether, others, like Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), have opposed taking this route. That\u2019s likely because such talks still offer an opportunity to evaluate spending, and because it could be a useful tool for Democrats should the GOP hold the White House and Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In lieu of getting rid of the debt limit altogether, there\u2019s been growing pressure on Democrats to consider increasing it to such a high value that there isn\u2019t likely to be a standoff over the issue in the short term.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2022\/10\/25\/23423216\/democrats-debt-ceiling-lame-duck-kevin-mccarthy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The US is currently projected to hit its existing debt ceiling sometime in 2023, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center. While raising the ceiling should be relatively straightforward, it\u2019s become a contentious process \u2014 and an opportunity for the minority party to extract policy concessions or score political points. Both parties have used debt ceiling increases to their advantage, but Republicans have done so much more frequently in recent years.
\nIn 2011, for example, Republicans balked on suspending the debt limit and refused to move forward until President Barack Obama agreed to key spending cuts, concessions they ultimately secured. The US got so close to default that year, however, that Standard and Poor\u2019s downgraded the country\u2019s credit rating.<\/p>\n

Political experts note that this disagreement marked one of the first times it seemed like lawmakers were actually willing to go over the edge, despite the economic chaos that could ensue. Were the US to actually default, that would likely downgrade the dollar and lead to a recession.<\/p>\n

While a default has never happened, Republicans\u2019 behavior in 2011 \u2014 and their current rhetoric \u2014 suggests that they\u2019re more open to the possibility and taking such fights to that point.<\/p>\n

Democrats, including in the White House, are reportedly considering preempting this worst-case scenario by tackling the debt ceiling this winter, according to Axios. The White House has denied that such conversations are happening.<\/p>\n

There are also still questions about what a debt ceiling bill could look like. While some lawmakers including Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and a group of prominent House Democrats, have expressed support for doing away with the debt ceiling altogether, others, like Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), have opposed taking this route. That\u2019s likely because such talks still offer an opportunity to evaluate spending, and because it could be a useful tool for Democrats should the GOP hold the White House and Congress.<\/p>\n

In lieu of getting rid of the debt limit altogether, there\u2019s been growing pressure on Democrats to consider increasing it to such a high value that there isn\u2019t likely to be a standoff over the issue in the short term.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,7,1393,1385,1262,217,165,1365,10,506],"class_list":["post-9354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-debt","tag-debt-ceiling","tag-debt-limit","tag-democrats","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-kidnap","tag-national-debt","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9355,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354\/revisions\/9355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}