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House Democrats on Tuesday revealed a secret plan to break through the partisan logjam that\u2019s dogging talks over the debt ceiling and threatening a government default.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The strategy, kept under wraps since being formulated in January, is designed to force a vote on a debt limit hike even over the objections of Republican leaders, who control the floor and are demanding trillions of dollars in spending cuts as a condition of preventing a default.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, less than 24 hours after the Treasury Department warned that such a lapse could occur as soon as June 1, Democratic leaders unveiled their closely held plan \u2014 a long-shot gambit, known as a discharge petition, that forces floor action on legislation that\u2019s backed by a majority of House lawmakers.<\/p>\n
In a letter to fellow Democrats, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) outlined that strategy, revealing that the legislative vehicle Democrats intend to use was introduced in January \u2014\u00a0very quietly and without any fanfare \u2014 by Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Calif.). And Tuesday, during a pro forma session of the House, Rep. Jim McGovern (Mass.), the senior Democrat on the Rules Committee, introduced a \u201cspecial rule\u201d designed to guide that bill to the floor if the discharge petition is successful.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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