Blame Chuck Schumer for the Debt Ceiling Crisis

 Barely two weeks ago, it didn't look like House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had enough votes to pass a bill to increase the limit on the U.S. national debt.

Schumer won't even hear of allowing the Senate to vote on the bill passed by the House.

If a majority of senators share Schumer's opinion, why not just schedule a vote to demonstrate this consensus? For one reason, Schumer doesn't want Democrats in swing states to have to go on record with votes that might come back to haunt them in November 2024.

For another, the House bill could pass the Senate if just two members of Schumer's majority were to vote for it.

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has spoken about the need for "a reasonable and commonsense compromise" on the debt ceiling, and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, while doubtful that the House bill could pass the Senate, said it would at least "Start a conversation for negotiations." You have two votes right there that Schumer can't necessarily count on if the House bill is brought to the Senate floor, so therefore he must prevent such a vote.

Most Republican voters - and perhaps many Democratic and independent voters - would consider this proposal as meeting Manchin's "Reasonable and commonsense" criteria, even while Schumer condemns it as "Extreme." Basically, what Biden, Schumer, and most other Democrats in Washington, D.C., want is a blank-check approach to endless deficits, a continuation of the wild binge spending that Democrats pursued when Nancy Pelosi was speaker.

Why aren't Senate Republicans demanding such a vote? Are they, like their Democratic counterparts, also afraid to go on the record in a roll-call vote about the deficit spending that has caused this crisis? Does the Senate tradition of collegiality forbid Republicans from calling out Schumer's cowardly evasion of the issue? Any fear of political fallout is foolish: There is no Republican in the Senate who represents a state where Chuck Schumer is a popular figure.

https://spectator.org/blame-chuck-schumer-for-the-debt-ceiling-crisis/