Schumer to try to get deal to bypass filibuster on debt hike
By Jordain Carney - 09/28/21 11:18 AM EDT
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Tuesday that he will try to bypass the legislative filibuster on increasing the country's borrowing limit — a move expected to be blocked by Republicans.
The move by Schumer, which he said he will request later Tuesday, comes after Republicans blocked a House-passed government funding and debt ceiling bill from getting the 60 votes needed to break a legislative filibuster on Monday night.
Schumer said that he will ask the Senate for unanimous consent, which any one GOP senator can object to and block, to set up a vote on a debt ceiling increase that could pass by a simple majority. That would allow Democrats to suspend the debt ceiling on their own.
"I will ask unanimous consent for the Senate to hold a vote to increase the debt limit at a majority threshold. ...It would be very similar to the process that Leader [Mitch] McConnell cited yesterday favorably which allowed for the debt limit to be increased without the minority party providing any of the votes needed to do so," Schumer said.
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