Must-do for Congress: Raise debt limit, pass spending bills [barf]

Associated Press ^ | Jun 4, 2017 8:57 AM EDT | Andrew Taylor

[Olog-hai]

Even members of his own party were quick to declare President Donald Trump’s budget plan dead on arrival in Congress last month. And in fact, lawmakers are facing a burst of overdue budget-related work this summer.

Most of what’s on the budget agenda probably won’t bear much resemblance to Trump’s spending plan, which promised deep spending cuts on domestic programs, rapid economic growth, and a balanced federal ledger in a decade.

Instead, they’re confronting an increase in the government’s borrowing cap, serious problems in advancing annual spending bills, and a smaller set of curbs on domestic benefit programs. […]

Atop the absolute must-do list is raising that borrowing cap, or debt limit. Doing so would avert a disastrous, first-ever default on U.S. obligations. …

[DoughtyOne]

The business growth rate is important. New business, new jobs, a more full employment economy, this is all great for government receipts. It’s better for outlays as well.

It’s going to take some time to get the tax cuts in and get this economy rolling, but when it happens, things are going to be a lot better.

While some folks will undoubtedly think it all didn’t happen soon enough, we need to think how it would have worked if the Left had won.

We’re headed in the right direction. Hang in there folks...

[just me]

If I raised the debt limit at my house we’d be living in the street.

[DoughtyOne]

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[Sacajaweau]

It has to be done. Just do it.

[TBP]

No, those would qualify as must not do.

[TBP]

Of course it’s not happening soon enough. The sooner, the better. The sooner it happens, the sooner we start turning things around.

Any of us, if we could, would wave a magic wand and have it done now.

But the process is beginning. It will take some time, but as they say, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Let’s see how it plays out.

[Svartalfiar]

Doing so would avert a disastrous, first-ever default on U.S. obligations. …

I'm pretty sure they don't even write these articles anymore. They just copy-paste from the previous year, then substitute the date and Trump for House Repubs, etc.