let s listen to what senator schumer responded after that. simply allow for simple majority threshold to raise the debt ceiling and avoid this neless catastrophe that republicans have steer us toward. we are simply asking senator mcconnell toive by his own example. we have given the republicans what they want. and now the ball is in tir court. we re just asking rublicans, get out of the way. so leader mcconnell himself objected to that. he offered his own unanimous consent requesthich was to make it easier for democrats to add a suspension of the debt limit to the partisan, human infrastructure bill that they re currently trying to negotiate. senator schumer objected to that. hallie, we re in the exact same
fina daysnhe tmp admistrati. re on that, plus the white house s defense in just the last couple of minutes coming up in just a bit. i want to start on capitol hl with leigh ann caldwell. we re hearing about the standoff on the debt limit. bring us up to speed on what we missed in the last 20 minutes or so. reporter: yeah, hallie. so republicans have been saying that they will offer no help to democrats to suspend or lift the debt limit which secretary yellen says expires on october 18th. what senator schumer did, he went to the senate floor and he asked republicans to let them bypass that process that forces republicans to beinvolved, the 60-vote threshold. senator schumer said, look,et us vote or pass this with just 50s votes and then we ll do it. you don t have to have any fingerprints. but senator mcconnell objected.
he just tweeted in the last few minutes saying that he urges progressives in the house to vote against that bipartisan bill saying that this is a broken commitment that those two pieces of legislation were supposed to go in tandem. meanwhile, president biden, as you mentioned, is meeting with two key moderate senators who everyone is trying to figure out what exactly they stand for in this entire negotiation. senators manchin and sinema. and joe manchin says, once ain, which is the same thing he told me yesterday, he s given no commitment to anyone, including the president. it s unclear how ty get to that threshold to pass this bipartisan bill on thursday, a member of congress was just walking by me she said i promise we going to get this done. it s going t happen. i said this week? and shesaid, probably not. well, that says a lot right the.