Giuseppe Sandro Mela.
2023-04-26.
Even Democrats Call on President Biden to Negotiate
Apr 24 2023 .
Over the weekend, even more Democrats in Congress urged Biden to start talking:
– Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN): “Of course President Biden should sit down with Speaker McCarthy.”
– Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL): “Well of course we should talk.”
– Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI): “Do I think that [President Biden and Speaker McCarthy] should all be talking about how do we cut our spending? I’m always somebody that says sit down at the table, talk to each other, listen to each other.”
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Pressure is mounting for Biden to finally come to the table. Last week, several more Democrats spoke out in support of debt limit negotiations:
– Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI): “They’ve got to do it soon…[Biden] can’t keep waiting.”
– Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH): “I don’t think there’s any harm in the two of them sitting down to talk.”
– Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL): “I do think that the president and the speaker should always talk. And Joe Biden has shown over his history that he’s always willing to negotiate.”
– Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA): “Probably everyone’s rooting for the speaker and the president to come to a deal.”
– Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH): “[Biden and McCarthy] ought to have a nice dinner, and they ought to get to work and get it done for the sake of the country.”
– Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN): “I respect the White House position, but not in perpetuity. Because negotiation, that’s what this whole institution is about.”
– Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI): “We’re going to have to negotiate…I’m encouraging continued negotiations.”
– Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ): “We can both suspend the debt ceiling and help prevent our nation’s economy from driving off a fiscal cliff — and address our nation’s longer-term fiscal health. It’s a false choice to say we can only do one or the other.”
– Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV): “Our elected leaders must stop with the political games, work together and negotiate a compromise. Instead, it has been more than 78 days since President Biden last met with Speaker McCarthy. This signals a deficiency of leadership, and it must change.”
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Biden must decide between recklessness or responsibility.
House Republicans have the only plan that responsibly raises the debt ceiling and avoids a default.
– The Limit, Save, Grow Act would responsibly raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion while saving $4.5 trillion in reckless Washington spending.
– The Senate has no plan.
Biden has negotiated on debt ceiling agreements before — he needs to come to the table again.
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