According to a report in Bloomberg News, there’s an increasing push among House Republicans to pass some kind of short-term ‘clean’ debt ceiling bill. It would likely be a “suspension” of the debt ceiling rather than raising it. For these purposes, however, same difference. As we noted yesterday, the governing idea seems to be to time it to September 30th, the end of the fiscal year. This would combine both a debt default cliff and a government shut down cliff on one big fiscal Armageddon day.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1446612