Thread by @JakeSherman

>@PunchbowlNews AM

MESSTEMBER

September is shaping up to be a historic mess on Capitol Hill, with critical deadlines piling up, the Biden agenda waiting to be completed.

@PunchbowlNews GROWING POSSIBILITY of a concurrent fight over govt funding and the debt limit. Both parties are talking past each other right now, which makes it feel like a replay of the 2011 debt crisis.

@PunchbowlNews That episode resulted in the first-ever downgrading of the U.S. credit rating. This time, a possible government shutdown is thrown in for good measure. This is Fiscal Cliff-like (Remember 2012-2013?).

@PunchbowlNews Biden, Pelosi and Schumer seem to think McConnell and Rs will blink on the debt limit, but they dont seem to be interested in that in any way shape or form

@PunchbowlNews DEADLINES, DEADLINES, DEADLINES.

→ Sept. 6: Enhanced federal unemployment benefits approved under the American Rescue Plan expire. A number of GOP-run states have already begun to withhold them.

@PunchbowlNews → Sept. 11: This is the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Biden initially ordered an end to the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan by this date, but the deadline was moved
up to Aug. 31.

@PunchbowlNews → Sept. 15: House and Senate committees must finish drafting their portions of the Democrats’ big reconciliation bill. This is going to be particularly difficult to do if there’s a debt limit-government funding crisis.

@PunchbowlNews → Sept. 30: Govt funding runs out. Remember all the possible options here: a yearlong omnibus (not very likely), a minibus (also not very likely) and then continuing resolutions of various lengths. A CR, though, would keep Trump-era spending intact, which is not what Ds want.

@PunchbowlNews → Sept. 30: Surface transportation program authorization expires.

→ Sept. 30: National flood insurance program authorization expires.

→ Oct. 3: Latest federal eviction moratorium expires, if a federal court doesn’t strike it down first.