filibustering a bill that would stop those things from happening. there s nothing else in the bill the bill isn t trying to accomplish grander schemes it s let s not let the government shut down and let s not slam into the debt ceiling filibuster, and we sort of knew the republicans were going to do this, but it s sort of unfathomable at a basic level. why do you need to raise the debt ceiling well, that s to account for spending that accrued under president trump which you all voted for, as well as spending under president biden. during the first year of the trump administration when republicans held the majority in the house and the senate, democrats were happy to vote with republicans to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling, even though republicans were in charge in congress, and in charge in the white house not a single democrat in the senate or the house voted against it in trump s first year as president but now that biden s president and democrats are in charge, recipr