House Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has warned that Republicans will in fact negotiate with Biden to raise the debt ceiling simply because America has never defaulted on its bills and it won’t start now.
“Periodically the debt ceiling has to be lifted and it’s always a rather contentious effort,” McConnell told reporters in Kentucky. “In the end, I think the important thing to remember is that America must never default on its debt. It never has and never will.”
McConnell told reporters that he expects a deal to come about in the first half of 2023.