Democrats are facing a daunting stretch as the party struggles to get beyond internal battles to win approval of President Biden’s agenda and deal with other crises that have effectively been punted to the Christmas season.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Sunday that the U.S. should never be in a position in which officials need to consider invoking the 14th Amendment to ignore the debt limit.
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The New York congresswoman, a frequent critic of the party’s centrist wing who unseated a longtime incumbent in the Democratic primary to win her seat in 2018, has not directly expressed a desire to challenge Schumer.
She told Politico in April that she didn t know whether she would ever mount such a challenge. President Trump
More recently, in October, Ocasio-Cortez told Vanity Fair, “I don’t know if I’m really going to be staying in the House forever, or if I do stay in the House, what that would look like. I don’t see myself really staying where I’m at for the rest of my life.”