Confident Dems want separate showdowns on fiscal battlesThe Hill - Senate Democrats want to have separate fights with the House GOP over a potential government shutdown and raising the nation’s debt limit, confident they will win showdowns on both issues.
Some House Republicans want to bundle the question of setting federal funding levels and raising the debt limit into one vote but a senior Senate Democrat has rejected that possibility.
Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said repeatedly raising the debt limit in small increments wreaks havoc on government operations.
“The longer you extend the debt limit, the more thoughtless it is,” he said.
Durbin predicted Congress would tackle the debt limit question in mid October instead of pushing the debate until shortly before Christmas.
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