unanimous consent to be able to do so. go ahead, you ll only need a simple majority to do so. republicans stopped that. we should continue to remind people what janet yellen said, but also most importantly, that s exactly what mitch mcconnell said when the debt limit had to be raised during the trump years. this is not something that has been partisan, but what we know about especially this republican party right now is they re not looking to give anyone any wins even though this has nothing to do with politics, but they re playing politics and kind of playing chicken with the american economy. you see it on every level of government where they don t want to give joe biden and folks in the house and the senate any kind of leeway to do things, even though democrats have worked with republicans to do something about the debt limit.
relationships in the house that he had in the senate and still has in the senate. so if you go back a couple of weeks ago, he was trying to convince some very house moderates to support a budget deal in that chamber. it was nancy pelosi who convinced him to do it, not the president. which shows what he s got a problem here and that was a moderate democrat. he has to convince progressive democrats to accept this bipartisan infrastructure bill without the larger social spending package they want as well to go hand and hand. i think it is going to be a tough sell for him. they re both playing chicken now. clearly the first vote will be the vote on infrastructure on monday, and so the big question now is can they get progressives to support something like this. and let s be clear, the president s relationship with democratic progressives now not great. look at the reaction to the border patrol response to the migrants on the boarder there steny hoyer hopes s biden has
through another downgrade here in the midst of this pandemic, you know, all bets are off about what that does to the economy, so i think it will be done one way or the other. i think we ll get an agreement. the question politically is does it shift the blame to one or the other parties and who winds up. are they putting a tail on the donkey. where does that tail wind up, and i don t think we know that yet. that s why both sides are being cautious, but i think the costs of failure, katherine outlined those extremely well. let me come back to you on that, katherine, because you both made this important, and it s an important point, playing chicken with the nation s finances have become routine with the congress but the u.s. has never failed to pay its bills, right? how realistic is an economic catastrophe as treasury secretary janet yellen is warning about? well, if it happened for all the reasons i just explained it would be very, very bad. i hope dearly it does not happen. here s a
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