After US President Joe Biden’s thrust against the Republicans, responsible in his view for the inability of Congress to suspend or raise the ceiling on US debt, Mitch McConnell, leader of the Republican minority in the Senate, has proposed a suspension of the ceiling for a short time. term. Objective: to avoid a US debt default, which would occur if the debt limit was not raised or suspended by the October 18 deadline.
“We will also allow Democrats to use normal procedures to enact an emergency extension of the debt ceiling for a fixed amount of dollars,” McConnell wrote on Twitter.
The Republican leader also reiterated that Republicans would help Democrats in speeding up a possible reconciliation process aimed at raising the limit, in case the Democrats wanted to resolve the issue before the October 18 deadline.
The reaction of the White House was cold, with spokeswoman Jen Psaki saying: “According to what is learned, no formal offer has been presented, and a press release is not a formal offer. In any case, the few details that have been disclosed present a more complicated and more difficult option than would be obvious: reaching an agreement today, without going long, without going through a difficult path that brings with it, with each passing day, additional risks “