NEW: @ReverendWarnock contemplated voting against debt limit today. He told me it is “hypocritical” for the senate to preach that the rules can’t be changed but then change it to lift the debt limit. 1/
“The warning lights on our democracy are blinking right now. And we seem unwilling to respond with the same urgency to protect the democracy that we have to protect the economy,” Warnock told me. 2/
He’s relayed that message to Sens. Manchin and Schumer over the weekend. And he talked to the rest of the Democrats at their weekly closed-door lunch today. 3/
“But then I thought about the vulnerable communities that I also represent. And ironically, they're the same communities that are that are suffering under the these voter suppression tactics,” Warnock said. So he’s going to vote for the debt limit. But 5/
“I've been placed in an untenable situation,” Warnock said. “If you change the rule to respond to the debt ceiling while the ceiling on our democracy is crashing in around us, the message you're sending is that the economy matters. But the democracy can wait.”
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