Many Republicans are often quick to defend the Senate filibuster, especially when it comes to voting rights—and centrist Democrats like Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have been staunch defenders of the filibuster as well. But Politico’s Burgess Everett, this week, has found an example of Republicans coming out in favor of a filibuster exception: the debt ceiling.
Everett tweeted:
Let this sink in
10+ Republicans will vote to break the filibuster on a bill that exempts the debt ceiling from a filibuster but would not vote to break a filibuster on a debt ceiling bill
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) December 9, 2021
Twitter users weighed in on Everett’s post, some of them noting how dangerous it would be economically if the U.S. were to default on its debt obligations.
It will.
This is not just a government shutdown. This would be a potential US debt default. The US has never defaulted on its debt before. A default would rapidly devalue the US dollar and have global ramifications, possibly worse than 2008.You do not want this to happen.
— shitbrains (@shtbrns) December 9, 2021
