President Unity Gives Unhinged Lecture on Debt Ceiling

In remarks from the White House on Monday, an exasperated President Biden addressed the looming October 18 deadline before which Congress must vote to raise the nation’s debt ceiling or face defaulting on its debts on the heels of last week’s failure to whip enough support among congressional Democrats to move his domestic legislative agenda forward.

Failing to raise the debt ceiling is “reckless and dangerous” according to Biden who attempted to explain the situation in layman’s terms. Such a vote, Biden claimed, is “paying what we already owe, what has already been acquired” and “not anything new.”

“We’re able to borrow because we always pay what we owe,” Biden continued, saying “that’s America, that’s who we are.” The “full faith and credit of the United States” is “rock solid, it’s the best in the world,” he added.

In Biden’s pitch, “raising the debt limit is about paying off our old debts” and has “nothing to do” with his administration’s infrastructure or budget reconciliation bills, two items the president erroneously claimed are “already paid for.”

Joe Biden voted against raising the debt ceiling in 2003, 2004, and 2006.

Now, he wants *Republicans* to raise the debt ceiling to give him cover to waste trillions of dollars and make inflation worse.

Not a chance. The Democrats can do this themselves.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) October 4, 2021

President Biden to Republicans on the debt limit:

“If you don’t wanna help save the country, get out of the way so you don’t destroy it.” pic.twitter.com/8Ff4sjxuAQ

— The Recount (@therecount) October 4, 2021