Effects on your Retirement Funds and your ability to borrow money. It could bring a halt to Social Security benefits, medicare benefits. Millions of jobs could be wiped out. Why would washington even think of risking all of that not to mention the catastrophic impact on americas standing in the world . To be clear, raising the debt limit is to cover money already spent during the trump administration. Raising the debt ceiling right now does not authorize any of President Bidens future spending plans. And to start us off this hour, we have nbc news capitol Hill Reporter leigh ann caldwell, jake sherman, and yamiche alcindor. Yamiche and jake are both msnbc contributors. Jake, i saw a tweet where you tweeted some news and it was prefaced with two siren emojis. Thats not the tweet im talking about. Bring us up to speed on this offer from Mitch Mcconnell to Chuck Schumer today. Mitch mcconnell offered told republicans he would offer a short term Debt Ceiling Increase until december or an e
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