Schumer Smack-Talks GOP: Senate Dems Will Pass Budget
‘‘[O]ur Republican colleagues had better get used to that fact.’’
Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York tells NBC’s ‘‘Meet the Press’’ that his party’s budget will also include tax law changes to attract support from both parties and bring down the nation’s debt.
Congress is trying to figure out how what to do when the government hits its borrowing limit soon. Republicans have indicated they’ll extend that borrowing authority for three more months, but insist on bringing down the debt.
Watch the full interview here.
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By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.