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Democrats will not raise debt limit in $3.5 trillion bill -Pelosi

September 8, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

September 8, 2021

By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats will not include a provision to raise the federal government’s borrowing limit in a $3.5 trillion “reconciliation” spending measure they hope to pass this autumn, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday.

Pelosi said the $28.5 trillion debt limit must be raised, but told a news conference she would not say whether this would be included in a must-pass bill to keep the government running, expected at the end of September.

“I am not here to talk about where” the debt limit would be raised, “but it won’t be in reconciliation,” she told reporters. Democrats are currently crafting the reconciliation package, a sweeping social spending bill, and hope to pass it in the coming weeks.

Senior congressional Republicans have vowed not to vote for an increase of the debt limit, instead urging Democrats to pass it without their votes through the reconciliation maneuver.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell argued that Republicans should not shoulder the burden of raising the debt limit to finance Democrats’ investment initiatives. Democrats countered that the debt limit increase is mainly to pay for government spending during the Trump administration.

Failure to increase the limit could lead to a shutdown of some federal government operations, something that has happened three times in the past decade, and likely would plunge financial markets into chaos.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday again urged Congress to tackle the debt ceiling, saying it was unclear how long Treasury’s efforts to temporarily finance the government would last and citing ongoing economic worries over the pandemic.

The “most likely outcome is that cash and extraordinary measures will be exhausted during the month of October,” Yellen wrote in a letter to lawmakers.

Leaders of the Democratic-led Senate and House of Representatives are expected to force votes to lift the debt limit in late September.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, speaking to reporters on Wednesday, also declined to say whether the debt limit will be included in what is called a continuing resolution that must be passed by the end of September to keep government operations funded.

Both Pelosi and Schumer noted that when Donald Trump was president, Democrats supported debt limit increases, and urged Republicans to back one now.

The Democrats’ $3.5 trillion bill to help address climate change, bolster education, expand social services for the elderly and children and raise taxes on the wealthiest and corporations is set to move ahead in coming days.

Schumer told reporters there is strong support among House and Senate Democrats for making an expanded child tax credit “permanently, fully refundable” and for lifting a cap on state and local tax deductions imposed by a 2017 Republican tax law.

(Reporting by Susan Cornwell, Richard Cowan and Susan Heavey; Editing by Scott Malone and Andrea Ricci)

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David Barret
David Barret

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