"#Republicans created this crisis. They’re threatening to impose a catastrophe on us if their demands aren’t met. Democrats, in contrast, have never engaged in these tactics, and they’ve pleaded with GOP leaders to take #default off the table — pleas that Republicans have rejected."
#DebtCeiling
#ShameOnGOP
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/weak-case-blaming-dems-gops-debt-ceiling-crisis-rcna85822?cid=eml_maddow_20230523&user_email=98771c40d9a31b3a779d8c2567f7fb0dfc72890f5e290c4e36ff49826391abaf&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TRMS%205/23/22&utm_term=Rachel%20Maddow%20Show
No that's just not right.
Republicans created this crisis? No Republicans voted against it! This crisis was created by Democrats in the last Congress and they really need to be held accountable for that.
Republicans voted against the appropriations that we are now dealing with. This was 100% positioned by Democrats, for better or worse, but either way we need to hold them accountable for the position they have made us face now.
Well right, they raised the debt ceiling to fund the budget for that. The problem is, the last Congress appropriated money, and Biden signed off on it, but they did not raise the debt ceiling to pay for it.
Biden and the last Congress had every option to do so, but they didn't.
We are in this position now because of the choices of the president and the last Congress to actively put us here. The GOP voted against those appropriation bills, so they voted against us getting to this position.
I really think we need to hold those politicians accountable for having actively voted to put us here.
We re-elected almost all of them, so I guess we are good with this, but we need to be clear, the last Congress and the president signed the appropriations bills without debt ceiling legislation to put us in this place.
@volkris I disagree.
This is a manufactured @GOP crisis to sew chaos. The chaos is designed to make POTUS unelectable.
Republicans had no issues raising the #debtCeiling 3 times under tRump. Paying for the 1%'s tax cuts by blowing up the deficit is just fine. Paying for Veterans' benefits, food stamps, or Medicare? Not so much.