Today, we're going to talk about the resolution to the debt limit crisis and what needs to happen

next.

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election and a failed stunt that Virginia Republicans tried to pull.

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I'm Brian Teller Cohen and you're listening to No Lie.

So I hope this is the very last time that we ever have to talk about the debt limit.

It won't be, but it should be.

So what happened this past week is that we had until October 18th to raise the debt limit

before the United States ran out of money to pay all of its bills, which would then force

the government into default, send the US into recession, wipe out six million jobs, send

the unemployment rate to 9% and eliminate $15 trillion in household wealth.

Needless to say, the results would have been catastrophic for the United States.

And so there was this standoff between McConnell and Schumer and the Senate, where McConnell

was insisting that Democrats do it alone through reconciliation, which is a lengthy process.

But Democrats purposefully waited until there wasn't enough time to do it through reconciliation,

basically to force Republicans to either buck up and help them raise the debt ceiling,

just like the Democrats did three times while Trump was president or let the country

to fault.

And so that presented McConnell and Republicans with three choices here.

They could either refuse to help Democrats and force them to eliminate the filibuster

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