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Pat Toomey: “There is only one reason that our Democratic colleagues refuse to use reconciliation to raise the debt limit, and that…”

On the recordNovember 29, 2021
There is only one reason that our Democratic colleagues refuse to use reconciliation to raise the debt limit, and that is because they would have to specify the amount of debt they want to inflict on the American economy.
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Pat Toomey
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Toomey argues Democrats avoid accountability by not specifying debt amounts in raising the limit.

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