Thread by @TheValuesVoter

@LeaderMcConnell and the majority of the @SenateGOP voted to suspend the debt ceiling on 8/1/2019. On that day, the US national debt was $22.023 trillion dollars. Donald Trump was President and Mitch McConnell was Senate Majority Leader.

Joe Biden became President and the Democrats took control of the Senate on 1/20/2021. On that day the National Debt was $27.752 trillion dollars.

The debt had risen by $5.729 trillion since McConnell and his Caucus voted to suspend the debt ceiling 538 days earlier.

The debt is now $28.429 trillion dollars - just below our debt ceiling. But 89.43% of the debt we incurred since the GOP cooperated with suspending the debt ceiling on 8/1.
/2019 was borrowed during the time when Donald Trump was POTUS and @LeaderMcConnell controlled the Senate.

Because we have a 3 trillion dollar budget deficit, we have to borrow more in order to pay back what we borrowed in the last.

@LeaderMcConnell and the @SenateGOP - every single last one of them - is refusing to pay the bill that they personally helped create.

Here is a visualization of the debt since most of the Republicans in the Senate suspended the Debt Ceiling on 8/1/2019.

They and Trump were in charge of the White House and Senate when 89.43% of the money the US borrowed since then was borrowed.

Now they don't want to pay it.

And speaking of the "Fiscally Conservative Ones," here's how we kept spending more than what we took in. BEFORE Covid.

It’s funny how none of the @SenateGOP members who are refusing to raise or suspend the #DebtCeiling didn’t have much of a problem with us nearly doubling the federal budget deficit during Trump’s term in office EVEN BEFORE COVID!

Freaking hypocrites!!!!

Another thing the @SenateGOP needs to consider. McConnell is undoubtedly a master tactician. But that doesn’t mean he’s always right or that those who go along with him don’t later find themselves in a jam.

He whipped most of them into opposing the #January6thCommission.

Going along with Mitch on that “favor,” as he put it is likely to backfire as the commission is getting to the bottom of what happened on 1/6.

And it’s hard to imagine that if we default there won’t be a hefty political price to pay.

EVEN BEFORE COVID, and with the GOP controlling the entire Government, our Federal Budget deficit has grown to being 48% higher than it was when Obama left office.

What do we do when we spend more than we take in? We borrow.

But now the @SenateGOP is obstructing paying for it.