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Jeffries preps for Plan B as historic debt default looms

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As the Treasury Department warns that the nation is inching closer to its first debt default, House Democrats are moving forward with a plan to allow them to get around Speaker McCarthy on the debt ceiling — but only if they have some Republican support.

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., sent a letter to colleagues informing them that Democrats are taking steps to give Congress another option to avert a debt default as President Joe Biden rejects demands by House Republicans forJeffries said Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern, the top Democrat on the influential Rules Committee, has filed a special rule that would allow a clean bipartisan debt ceiling bill to be brought to the floor without the support of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

The backup option, however, still faces big hurdles. To pass the lower chamber, it would need backing from all Democrats and a handful of rank-and-file House Republicans. Then it would need to be approved by at least 60 senators to defeat a GOP filibuster. “The filing of a debt ceiling measure to be brought up on the discharge calendar preserves an important option,” Jeffries wrote his colleagues. “It is now time for MAGA Republicans to act in a bipartisan manner to pay America’s bills without extreme conditions.”

 

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