Summary
Donald Trump called for abolishing the debt ceiling, labeling it a “psychological” concept with no real purpose.
He criticized a bipartisan short-term funding deal, calling it a “Democrat trap,” and signaled support for legislation to permanently end the debt ceiling.
Trump had previously raised the ceiling during his first term and floated its elimination. Some Democrats, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, echoed support, citing the need to end “governing by hostage taking.”
Trump’s stance reflects concerns over upcoming legislative challenges in his second term.
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Broken clock. It is always a bit shameful when he says something I agree with. Reminds me of this meme
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And as usual he’s right for the wrong reason. He wants it abolished. Because they plan no future transitions of power. They don’t think they will need to use it against Democrats anymore, and don’t want it used against them. This should worry more people. But they were warned.
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Could also be to prevent infighting from any sane Republicans.
Could be… If not for the fact that any sane Republicans still left are going to be gone by spring.
A broken clock will be correct at some point unless the only thing broken about it is the time it has been set to.
I.e. a perfect clock with the wrong time is never correct, but that is the only instance if a clock that is never correct (save dumb edge case like an unplugged digital clock or something).
Fun math, thanks.
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Erratic, backwards, no matter
Unless all of its erratic was canceled out to be perfect time keeping, it will in fact be correct at some point.
A broken clock could very well have no hands, or if digital a broken display.
I specifically accounted for such nonsense responses and yet here we are.
Is it was never right, that implies the clock is not broken, but merely set to the wrong time.
A broken clock should either run fast, slow, or not at all…
Either way, it would be right for a short amount of time.
It depends on how broken it is.
If you break the hands off the clock, it’s never right.
Also though perhaps if you break the hands off a clock it can no longer be considered a clock at all?
I think at that point it’s considered a broken clock.
But it’s got no hands!!
I prefer “even a blind squirrel finds a nut” A clock is guaranteed to be right at least once a day. Blind squirrels have no guarantee.
I agree in principle but abolishing it under a Republican administration is a recipe for tens of trillions handed out to Republican allies with the bill left to the next Democrat admin to clean up. I’d rather we didn’t do this right now, it’s almost guaranteed to lead to absurdly corrupt and wasteful spending that could otherwise fund social programs we desperately need (like single payer healthcare) during a less corrupt administration.
While I’d want you to be right in your concerns, in practice the only hiccup ever encountered with the debt ceiling is when they want to screw over Democrats. Otherwise they never blink at raising it, making it a fairly ineffective guard against over borrowing.
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