{"id":575955,"date":"2023-05-24T23:47:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/democrats-unanimously-back-debt-ceiling-discharge-petition\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T23:47:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T20:47:18","slug":"democrats-unanimously-back-debt-ceiling-discharge-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/democrats-unanimously-back-debt-ceiling-discharge-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"#Democrats unanimously back debt ceiling discharge petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/jeffrieshakeem_051123gn03_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Every House Democrat has endorsed the discharge petition to force a vote on legislation to hike the debt ceiling and prevent a default, party leaders announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The signatures of the two final holdouts \u2014\u00a0Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Ed Case (D-Hawaii) \u2014\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/DischargePetition\/2023051701?CongressNum=118\">puts the total number at 213<\/a>, meaning Democratic leaders still need to find five Republicans for the petition to be successful.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt takes a handful of members of the GOP to say, \u2018Enough,\u2019\u201d Rep. Katherine Clark (Mass.), the Democratic whip,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?528318-1\/house-democratic-leaders-news-conference-debt-limit\">told reporters<\/a>\u00a0in the Capitol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a heavy lift, since it would require GOP lawmakers to buck the wishes of Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who is in tense negotiations with the White House over a debt-ceiling package and is opposed to a vote on the \u201cclean\u201d debt-limit hike preferred by Democrats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The procedural gambit is a long shot: Only two discharge petitions have been successful in the last two decades. Still, Democratic leaders are hoping their party\u2019s unanimity on the document will pressure moderate Republicans to sign on, particularly if talks between President Biden and McCarthy don\u2019t yield fruit and the threat of default is imminent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re five signatures away,\u201d said Rep. Pete Aguilar (Calif.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. \u201cSo for our Republican colleagues who give interviews and go back home and talk about how they want to work together, and talk about how they\u2019re not extreme like Marjorie Taylor Greene, and how she doesn\u2019t speak for them \u2014 this is their opportunity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some moderate Republicans have already hinted at a willingness to join Democrats on a discharge petition if Congress inches too close to a federal default with no resolution in sight. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), a co-chairman of the centrist Problem Solvers Caucus, said earlier in the year that he might do so \u2014 \u201cif that\u2019s necessary.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since then, however, House Republicans have passed a debt ceiling proposal of their own, which would extend the government\u2019s borrowing authority by $1.5 trillion and reduce deficit spending by roughly $4.8 trillion over the next decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>That\u2019s the proposal McCarthy has taken into the negotiations as an opening bid, and Fitzpatrick more recently has thrown cold water on the idea of endorsing the Democrats\u2019 discharge petition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not even close to anything like that,\u201d Fitzpatrick said last week. \u201cWe already created a framework, and the Senate hasn\u2019t acted. So the House can\u2019t take Step 3 until at least Step 1 is passed. So the discharge petition is off the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated 5:19 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The signatures of the two final holdouts \u2014\u00a0Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Ed Case (D-Hawaii) \u2014\u00a0puts the total number at 213, meaning Democratic leaders still need to find&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":575956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/jeffrieshakeem_051123gn03_w.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[137605,134343,5069,143543,133498,135516,991,134508,35813,52226,115,135588],"class_list":["post-575955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-brian-fitzpatrick","tag-campaign","tag-economy","tag-ed-case","tag-in-the-know","tag-jared-golden","tag-joe-biden","tag-katherine-clark","tag-kevin-mccarthy","tag-marjorie-taylor-greene","tag-news","tag-pete-aguilar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}