OPINION>FINANCE
Biden can, and should, ignore the GOP’s debt suicide attempt
BY ROBERT HOCKETT AND LAURENCE TRIBE, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS - 05/18/23 9:00 AM ET
Conservative commentators have undertaken to pen apologetics for radicals. The subject? Our latest adventure in Republican-threatened financial suicide.
The results are surprising. And because these are likely the best spokespeople Republican extortionists will find, the attempted arguments call for engagement.
Take first, then, this remarkable would-be assurance: A minority of “House Republicans’ insistence on negotiations [about raising the debt ceiling] is not hostage taking,” but, “[i]t is the ordinary stuff of politics.”
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https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4009101-biden-can-and-should-ignore-the-gops-debt-suicide-attempt/