unprecedted. they have flirted with, threatened and bringing america to the brinkf defaulting on national debt repeatedly prox mitt ly approximately every two yearsince 2011 and our government actually shut down for a month because president obama refused to play charlie brown to mitch mcconnell s lucid with the football act. republicans represent lots of billionaires and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and his wife are really rich. defaulting would hurt them, too. what s the point? so republicans can perform a fake kind of fiscal probe by demanding cuts to government services and spending in exchange for raising the debt limit and paying the nation s lls of course, that theater ma miraculously disappears and mitch has the gavel, which is why during the trump administration, spend away. because none of it matters. republicans do not care about the debt. they never have. what they do care about is not letting democratic administrations succeed even if that means recki
crumbling. you could have the rich getting richer through the status quo. that s what this is all about. that s what this clash is about. in fa, think about it like this. twice in just the last 24 hours nate republicans have been blocng the congress from going forward on simply payin for the bills they already ran up in the trump era through this process that we ve been covering for you that s called raising the debt ceiling. this is stuff the government already bought. republican party is saying, its position, they call it a negotiating position but it s so very real, it s all coming to a head right now. their position is they don t want to pay f the things they already bought. it is obviously not fiscally responsible. then today mitch mcconnell getting into what heikes to do at times like this, other people are hot and bothered but he s just trolling and saying it s the other folks being obstructionists. so, look, time for our democratic colleagues to stop dragging their
News letter. the reidout with joy reids next. joy doesn t hav a hennessy in her hand but a good show. however this show goes you can blame it on the not on that, though. you re not going to blame it on that. no, i m not even going to go there. bye, ari. have a good night. good evening, everyone. we begin the reidout with a little theater. okay, no, not that kind of theater. political theater and performance but more in the hunger games where the consequences are real and scary. historically, since the early 20th century when borrowing replaced the federal government having to issue bonds every time it wanted to spend more money than we take in in taxes, raising the debt limit has been a routine congressional function. but since president obama took office in 2009, republicans have performed a version of fiscal irresponsibility that is
You can always find me i my news letter. the reidout with joy reids next. joy doesn t hav a hennessy in her hand but a good show. however this show goes you can blame it on the not on that, though. you re not going to blame it on that. no, i m not even going to go there. bye, ari. have a good night. good evening, everyone. we begin the reidout with a little theater. okay, no, not that kind of theater. political theater and performance but more in the hunger games where the consequences are real and scary. historically, since the early 20th century when borrowing replaced the federal government having to issue bonds every time it wanted to spend more money than we take in in taxes, raising the debt limit has been a routine congressional function. but since president obama took office in 2009, republicans have performed a version of fiscal