Joe Manchin actually said...

It is about people who are retiring. It is about people who want to finance a house and they cannot even go and get approval because now we ...

let us stop lurching from one manufactured crisis to another manufactured crisis and stop threatening to default on the Nation's obligations

the harm from default would take not just a short term to recover from, but I think it could take a decade to recover from.

It is just irresponsible to not deal with the underlying problem that gives rise to the need for all of this debt.