veterans so we could pretend that anyone cared about the government shutdown in reality the number of people who cared about the government shutdown on a realistic level was close to zero but the media care deeply about it because it's how they leverage everybody into just going ahead with massive government spending and that blows out the deficit house speaker nancy pelosi said quote this the next few days will be a time of intensity which is always a frightening line from nancy pelosi the week could also test the leadership of president biden according to the wall street journal who's been battered with criticism over his handling of the afghanistan withdrawal we'll get to that in a second and the recent surge of haitian immigrants at the southern border we will also get to that in one moment because biden is facing crisis on pretty much every front i mean literally every front like in afghanistan on the southern border and domestically the senate is expecting to vote monday evening on a measure extending the government's funding through december NUMBER_TOKENrd NUMBER_TOKEN and suspending the debt limit into december NUMBER_TOKEN it's expected to be blocked by democrat by republicans leaving the matter unresolved democratic leaders have not spelled out what their next step will be but pelosi reiterated sunday the government would not go into partial shutdown she said democratic leaders are preparing to bring up a short-term spending patch which has bipartisan support to avoid that outcome so republicans are saying fine you know we're not going to raise the the debt limit but what we are going to do is fund it for the next couple of weeks we'll fund it for the next couple of weeks because then it's up to you right we've given you the time to go work this out on your own but we are not going to green light a massive increase in the debt ceiling democrats are like well the debt ceiling is paying for bills we have already incurred yes but you are now asking for taking out a second credit card and republicans are just saying no to that until you get your spending under control it is true that we have to pay off the debt that we have already incurred but why would i keep extending you a line of credit if you are just going to blow out the credit continuously without getting your house in order there should be strings attached representative debbie dingle democrat of michigan said we're going to shut the government down in the middle of a pandemic it's the most irresponsible action that anyone can really i can think of some more irresponsible action than that namely blowing out the budget to the tune of seven trillion dollars this year i could imagine that would be pretty irresponsible considering we are now facing severe inflationary pressure as well as economic stagnation on the other end as the wall street journal points out averting a partial government shutdown this weekend would resolve only one of the handful of complex legislative battles a partisan fight over raising the debt limit has started to infuse anxiety into financial markets republicans are refusing to vote for a suspension or increase in the debt ceiling pointing to democrats decisions to pass a NUMBER_TOKEN trillion covet NUMBER_TOKEN relief bill with no gop support earlier this year and current efforts to pass that NUMBER_TOKEN trillion dollar package of social and climate programs along party lines senator patoumi who is a fiscal conservative he is the republican from pennsylvania
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