Lawmakers race to get debt deal through Congress as default deadline looms



ABC News’ Jay O’Brien has more on the critical deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling that was announced over the weekend.

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8 comments

  1. USA is 31 trillion dollars in debt. Yes, the World's debt leader. Blame China and Mexico again?

    International humiliation from the insurrection and pandemic mismanagement was not enough.

    No country on Earth feels safe continuing to base their currencies solely on the US dollar.

  2. Anyone who oppose debt ceiling right now should not be re-elected.
    We must show these congress members that there will be consequences.
    People will remember them and vote them out.

  3. It's too late to vote no on this bill. The crazy members who vote no, should lose their seats.

  4. Campaign against the extremists!!

  5. Why they waited so long despite being warn by Janet Yellen back in January the day of default will occur on June 1st?

  6. "Fewer than one-third of Americans believe that House GOP leaders are prioritizing the country’s most important issues…" Congress has revised the debt ceiling 78 times since 1960. 49 times under Republican presidents, including 18 times under Ronald Reagan, 7 times under George W. Bush and 3 times under Donald Trump. During Trump's presidency, the federal debt held by the public increased 39% and the Trump administration incurred the second-highest annual deficit of any president in history.

  7. The government gave away more money in the tax break for the rich and corporations than they would save cutting the money for veterans and snap etc.

  8. We Americans love being taken hostage by the Radical Right. Right? Let the Republican wealthy tax cuts not be allowed in the bill. We the people get nothing. Democrats are cutting there own throats. Trump screwed America in a way that's like a Bacteria Disease with no Antibiotics.