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A r u b a ’ s O N L Y E n g l i s h n e w s p a p e r
Debt limit deadline looms as Democrats, GOP spar on spending

By KEVIN FREKING
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen-
ate Democrats pressured
Republicans on the in-
creasingly menacing debt
ceiling impasse Thursday,
focusing on what they say
will be painful reductions
in government services
if a bill the GOP recently
pushed through the House
becomes law.
Republicans responded
that they know the legal
limit on government bor-
rowing must be raised to
avert a possible default.
But they’re insisting it be
coupled with cuts in what
they consider bloated fed-
eral spending.
No one expects that the
House bill, which would
importantly increase the
nation’s borrowing author-
ity as well as cut spending,
will reach President Joe
Biden’s desk. The Demo-
cratic Senate won’t let it.
Many Republicans admit-
ted so when passing the Senate Budget Committee Chair Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., left, welcomes Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analyticw who
measure. will testify as the panel holds a hearing on the Republican proposal to address the debt limit which passed along party lines in the
House last week, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2023
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