Debt Ceiling Deadline Looms as Washington’s Impasse Continues – Live | US News

With Republican leader Mitch mcconnell hang on to the use of obstruction to block the Democrats, majority leader in the Senate Chuck schumer say it Senate will go ahead with the vote scheduled for Wednesday to suspend the debt ceiling.

Joe biden past yesterday in virtual meetings with the progressive of Democratic Party, speaking of $ 3.5 billion reconciliation invoice. White House press secretary Jen psaki was clear that the package would be “smaller than that initially proposed”, with the centrists Joe manchin and Kyrsten Cinema firmly behind the idea that the package was too big, and that the meetings would determine priorities and outcomes.

Today, meetings continue ahead of his trip to Michigan:

The Facebook whistleblower the hearing is underway before the Senate and our technical reporter from the west coast Kari paul blog the proceedings live.

Francoise Haugen, a 37-year-old former Facebook employee, came out on Sunday to accuse the social media giant of prioritizing profit over safety.

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Stephanie Grisham, old White House press officer for Donald Trump. admitted on CNN today that she “probably wasn’t” honest in her interviews with Fox news and lied at least once about the former White House chief of staff John kelly, a retired four-star general of the Marine Corps.

In 2019, Grisham said: “I worked with John Kelly and he was absolutely not equipped to handle the genius of our great president.”

Grisham, who is currently on a publicity tour for his revealing book I’ll Take Your Questions Now, said Trump told him to say this after Kelly somehow disparaged Trump. “I don’t talk like that,” she said. “He dictated it to me, word for word. “

“At the time, I felt I was his spokesperson,” Grisham said. “He told me to do it. I knew he was probably setting there, watching TV, waiting for her. And so I turned it off. This is one of my biggest regrets. I have apologized to General Kelly and Mrs. Kelly in the book about this.

Former vice-president Mike pence Fox News continued to say that the media’s focus on the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol – in which a pro-Trump crowd chanted “Hang Mike Pence” – is all for distraction Joe biden and its attempts to push through its national agenda.

“I believe all of our focus today should be on the future,” Pence said.

Ah, there, live blog readers. Good Tuesday.

Joe biden Head towards Michigan today to talk about … yeah, what else, the bipartite infrastructure bill and the reconciliation invoice (also known as Rebuild Better Act).

The $ 1 billion infrastructure bill to improve roads, bridges, public transport and broadband and $ 3.5 billion the reconciliation bill on the “human infrastructure” of social services and environmental measures are the hot topics of the week, with a October 18 deadline looming on the debt limit and Republicans showing these two bills as proof that expenses through Democrats is out of control.

Republicans have been saying since July that they will not vote to raise the debt ceiling and that Democrats will have to do it themselves. Republicans again use the obstruction, which requires 60 votes to break and have twice blocked Democrats’ efforts to raise the debt ceiling. They are also expected to block their efforts on Wednesday.

Democrats could raise the ceiling with a majority of 51 votes, but they’re already trying that with the spending bill and don’t want to complicate matters. They also point out that they voted with Republicans to raise the cap as Republicans and the Trump administration spent hugely.

The Senate leader of the minority, Mitch McConnell, sent a letter directly to Biden yesterday, bypassing the Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, and the lodge Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, reiterating how serious it is to force Democrats to do it themselves.

Meanwhile, Democrats continue to discuss the ins and outs of the reconciliation bill, with centrist senators Joe manchin and Kyrsten Cinema pushing to make the package smaller and progressives fighting to vote for it as is the case with the infrastructure bill so that it has a better chance of being passed.

Much more to come, of course.