g5000
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First, Congress appropriates spending. It buys stuff on credit. Tanks, fighter jets, warships, roads, bridges, food stamps, etc. Then Congress has to pay that bill with the money collected from revenues, or by borrowing the money. If Congress spends so much that its borrowing will hit the debt ceiling, that is Congress's fault, and they must raise the ceiling.
If the Republican House runs up the credit card, but then does not follow through by paying the bills, that is a textbook deadbeat.
Republicans pretending someone else ran up the credit card past the limit, when they are the ones responsible for us hitting the debt ceiling, is like saying, "I can't be out of money, I still have checks in my checkbook."
If the Republican House runs up the credit card, but then does not follow through by paying the bills, that is a textbook deadbeat.
Republicans pretending someone else ran up the credit card past the limit, when they are the ones responsible for us hitting the debt ceiling, is like saying, "I can't be out of money, I still have checks in my checkbook."
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