The first point is somewhat fair regarding whether you can charge the current legislature with hypocrisy. It doesn’t really address the point that they’re gonna

The first point is somewhat fair regarding whether you can charge the current legislature with hypocrisy. It doesn’t really address the point that they’re gonna pass another budget this year under Republican control—so the debt ceiling is an absurd way to accomplish their goals. The second point I disagree with. The history shows that debt ceiling increases are quite frequent—almost annual. Most of the time it doesn’t provoke a debt crisis. While pre-handling increases with the budget would be better, it doesn’t seem to normally be done. It’s just sometimes the case that one party blocks the process (I think it’s true it’s mostly Republicans, but individual Democrats have opposed raising the ceiling and that’s completely irresponsible). So you don’t need an assumption that Democrats pre-planned this. https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R43389.pdf#page10 https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R43389.pdf#page10