I still think he is privately bluffing, but imagine playing the “I will blow all of it up” card for… what does McConnell even want, the Dems not to pass their very weak $3.5T infrastructure bill?
What he wants is very banal, it’s merely to stop the Democrats from getting a political win.
Really sucks that Biden won’t propose a bigger spending bill as a fuck you to McConnell after he sets off the debt bomb.
Don’t they do this literally every year? This is congress’ whole schtick, saying “oh nooo big bad scary debt ceiling coming up give me what I want mr. president or I won’t raise this arbitrary number on the imaginary wealth that we create despite knowing that we will inevitably have to raise it anyways because both the domestic and global economic economic systems depend on it.”
