Disaster aid could be all the sweetener Democrats need to avert a government shutdown later this month — if they give up their biggest leverage in the high-stakes debt limit staredown
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Sen. Susan Collins said Tuesday that she “would certainly vote for” a government funding patch coupled with disaster aid. “The president looked me in the eye and said, ‘We've got your back.’ And if he believes this is having our back, he's the only person in the Milky Way who believes that,” Kennedy added. “They know darn well that this [continuing resolution], with a debt ceiling increase on it, is not going to pass. So that tells me that they're not in good faith about helping my people."
Democrats have so far railed against Republicans for playing political chicken with the debt limit, which could cause economic chaos if breached. GOP leaders say they won’t cooperate on the issue while Democrats pursue trillions of dollars in social spending without Republican votes, however.
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