Republicans are trying, again, to destroy a presidency. Will Biden and Democrats stop them?
Sabotage didn’t become the Republicans' organizing principle until the first Black president won. Now their goal is crisis and humiliation for Biden.
As Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warns us that the federal government is days from once again hitting the so-called debt ceiling that limits how much money America can borrow, the question arises: How far will Republicans go to wreck the first term of a Democratic president?
We know the answer: They’ll threaten to blow up the global economy, even as the country is facing a once-in-a-lifetime crisis. We know this for sure because 10 years ago this month, that’s exactly what the GOP did.
Faced with a brutal recession, the new Republican House majority insisted it was ready to intentionally default on America’s debt for the first time in American history – unless Democrats agreed to trillions in spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit. Slashing social programs was the GOP’s No. 1 priority even as 14 million Americans were looking for work.