“Democrats could have tried to abolish this pointless and dangerous economic time bomb, but failed to do it.”
While Rs will be responsible if US #defaults, Ds also have themselves to blame for not being proactive when they had power. Great contextual breakdown from @ryanlcooper via @theprospect newsletter this am. #uspol
https://prospect.org/economy/2023-05-03-x-date-debt-ceiling-newsletter/
Cutting through the WH spin - @ddayen lays out in @theprospect how Biden + Cong Dems have essentially caved to Kevin McCarthy and the MAGA republicans - and they set themselves up for this surrender through their failure to take action in previous years. #uspol https://prospect.org/economy/2023-05-10-twelve-years-most-responsible-guy-debt-ceiling/
“Republicans, Democrats and Biden administration officials discussed dozens of categories of potential spending cuts.”
At this point Biden/Democrats just discussing their terms of surrender on this default crisis. Shameful. #uspol #debtceiling
@murshedz Really growing weary of this "blame democrats first" approach - the "dems should have blocked every path by which the GOP could behave horribly and in bad faith when they had power" is growing deeply tedious...
In this case it's not that the dems should have *blocked* reps, but that they shouldn't have actively created this situation and handed it to the GOP.
Democrats chose to pass appropriations bills without funding sources, putting us in this situation. That was their decision, their active effort.
Basically, they created a mess that we're now all dealing with. They shouldn't have created that mess.
