Sen. Joe Manchin III criticized his party and the White House on Sunday for initially refusing to negotiate with House Republicans on raising the debt ceiling.
The conservative West Virginia Democrat suggested the delay was responsible for nearly going over a fiscal cliff and narrowly averting a first-ever default on the national debt.
“Just hold your ground, hold your ground, hold your ground,” he described the “extreme left” stance. “That’s not who we are in America.” “How can you be a hostage-taker if basically you’re talking about shouldn’t we recognize that we have an unmanageable debt? Shouldn’t we figure out how we got here so fast and so high at $31.5 trillion?” Mr. Manchin said. “Trajectory is out of sight if we don’t do something. I want to give both sides — negotiating teams — credit.”
The deal passed by Congress last week and signed into law by Mr. Biden suspends the debt ceiling until January 2025, after next year’s presidential election.
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