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On the recordOctober 8, 2021
Republicans played a dangerous and risky partisan game. And I am glad that their brinksmanship did not work. Senate Republicans insisted they wanted a solution to the debt ceiling but said Democrats must raise it alone by going through a drawn out, convoluted and risky reconciliation process. That was simply unacceptable to my caucus. And yesterday, Senate Republicans finally realized that their obstruction was not going to work.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Schumer criticizes Republican tactics regarding the debt ceiling and emphasizes the need for bipartisan cooperation.

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