Speaker McCarthy may have the votes to pass a GOP budget bill, or not. Either way the result is the same–the debt ceiling remains a problem. Republicans may hope that somehow President Biden, House Democrats or the Senate will solve the debt ceiling problem for them; it is a faint hope. The GOP elected a Speaker; it’s on him to find a way out of the dilemma. There is an obvious solution–a bipartisan vote on a clean bill to raise or repeal the debt ceiling. The longer the delay, the greater the risk of economic disaster.
