Robert Romano
In Washington DC there are several facts of life, and one of them is that from the moment the debt will be created more than a hundred years ago, in one way or another the debt will be increased. This is often based on a double -sided order, usually requiring 60 votes in the Senate regarding the transition, thus requiring compromises to obtain it through the finish line.
But in 2025, the Republicans of House and Senate instead decided to take into account the debt ceiling in the Act on budget agreement, which will also expand and expand the tax reductions of President Donald Trump in 2017, cover fresh limit funds and codify the president’s executive orders.
Speaking at a press conference on TuesdayMarshal of the house, Mike Johnson, outlined that the Chamber would be in line with the law of some executive orders related to the budget of President Trump: “We intend to codify dozens of subsequent executive orders of President Trump, executive orders related to expenses through the process of agreeing the budget.”
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And Republicans, as during Bush and Trump administration, operate budget reconciliation to reduce taxes. And this time to introduce some of their favorite approaches to the security of borders and cuts of expenses. Why?
Because if these items appeared at the Filibuster Senate, the democrats would block them, or demanding concessions for their transfer, or more likely that they completely defeated them.
And so it is with the ceiling of the debt. Republicans could move this under a separate act of regulations, but then they would have to negotiate with the Senate Democrats to increase the debt ceiling – and it will not be economical.
For example, democrats may try to undo budget sequestration that the Republicans of the Chambers were introduced in exchange for increasing the debt ceiling in 2023. It was similarly used by the Republicans of House in 2011 to obtain reconciliation of the budget.
Which means that the debt ceiling represents the lever for the opposition party. I mean, unless the Republicans take it out of the hands of democrats. On the republican side, it often happens that increasing the debt ceiling is a political heated potato.
For example, in 2023, when the debt ceiling was used to introduce budget hats in sequestration, 71 Republicans of the Chamber voted in opposition with 46 House democrats to a double -sided bill. The votes had 314 to 117, so the management of the house on both sides could afford to lose many members to vote in the opposition, because this did not change the result.
While in 2025 it is highly debatable, whether Republicans will be able to get one democratic voice for the extension, not to mention the extension of Trump’s tax reductions in 2017 in the Act on budget agreement.
Question, republican leaders should ask conservative members who do not want to increase the debt ceiling, if they prefer the chamber and most of the senate to negotiate with democrats? Anyway, the debt ceiling will be increased – it always increases – the question is, what does President Trump have to give up on the way to do this?
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Robert Romano is the executive director of the Americans for restricted government.
