The two worked together in the US Senate ‘back in the day’….
With the countries economic legislative actions a mess?
The Senate Republican Minority Leader has wrote a letter to Biden imploring him to get his ‘own ‘ political house together….
Right now?
Biden does have more problems within his own party lawmakers …
Democrats tend to not row together like Republicans who exhibit mostly strong allegiance to Donald Trump no matter how off the wall he sounds….
Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell’s two-man emergency hotline had gone silent — until now.
The Senate minority leader on Monday morning prodded the president to talk his party into raising the debt ceiling without the GOP, the first step in what may become a complicated back-and-forth. McConnell has warned for months that he won’t supply the votes to raise the nation’s borrowing limit even as the risk of a U.S. default spikes, and he reiterated in a new letter to Biden that he won’t help Democrats out of the jam.
“I respectfully submit that it is time for you to engage directly with congressional Democrats on this matter,” McConnell told Biden in his letter, a copy of which POLITICO obtained. “Your lieutenants in Congress must understand that you do not want your unified Democratic government to sleepwalk toward an avoidable catastrophe when they have had nearly three months’ notice to do their job.”
The letter, delivered to the White House on Monday, also cites Biden’s past opposition to debt increases while in the minority. McConnell summarized it this way: “The president’s party had to take responsibility for a policy agenda which you opposed. Your view then is our view now.”
The president and the Senate GOP leader jointly helped avert fiscal catastrophe several times when Biden was vice president due to their long-running relationship and mutual trust. Yet the two aren’t even speaking to each other as Congress approaches a calamitous fight over the debt ceiling. Monday’s missive and Biden’s speech about the debt ceiling later Monday amount to their first real communication on the most perilous deadline Congress will face this year.
The two leaders have bragged for years about their close working relationship. When Biden campaigned for president, he did so as a leader who could reason with an oft-obstinate McConnell. And just a few months ago, McConnell shocked all of Washington when he endorsed Biden’s infrastructure deal….
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“The reason we’re not talking much is because of what they’re trying to do. I’m not offended by that. We don’t have anything to talk about right now. He’s got his hands busy, with Manchin, with Sinema,” McConnell said in a recent interview, referring to negotiations over Biden’s partisan social spending plan. “That doesn’t mean we have a hostile relationship. It’s just that there’s no business to be doing with them right now.”
As for whether Biden has picked up the phone to dial McConnell on the debt ceiling, he responded: “No. And I’m not ambivalent about that.”
As he focuses on saving his domestic spending and tax plans, Biden has sided with Schumer, who says he simply will not raise the debt ceiling with all Democratic votes through the arcane budget reconciliation process, as McConnell has demanded. Democrats say it takes too long and that the GOP should just not filibuster….
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The president and the Senate minority leader worked together to avert default in 2010 and avoid the fiscal cliff of 2012, when a host of tax cuts were set to expire. But unlike those past collisions, McConnell and his Republican colleagues have no policy goals they want enacted as a condition for suspending or hiking the debt ceiling. Rather, the GOP wants Biden and Democrats to drop their push for expanding the safety net, raising taxes on the wealthy and taking action on climate….
Note…
So far?
Progressives and Centrist Democrats have NOT got Manchin and Sinema to budge ….
They defiantly aren’t gonna get McConnell to do so….
President Joe Biden is trying to go ‘BIG’…..
The transitional thing seems to be striking out by the minute for both parties lawmakers…..
In a comment that helps to solidify her position as one of the dumbest members of the Senate,Republican airhead Marsha Blackburn says that the Infrastructure bills are part of a Democratic plot to take over America with socialism in one vote.
She added that the Democrats want government control of “your kids .For good measure the goofball added that the legislation will also close churches.
Former Rep. Todd Akin who lost a Senate race in Missouri after making comments about “legitimate rape” died yesterday at the age of 74
Half a century in the American socialist movement (following another nine decades of failure since 1876), and all it takes is one possible vote to finally bring socialism to America?
If only Eugene Debs, Norman Thomas and Michael Harrington were alive to see the day !!
And who knew it would be a Right Wing loon like this doofus to expose the whole thing!