The law raises the debt limit by $480 billion, which the Treasury Department said is enough to let the federal government pay its bills through December 3. Top Democrats in the House tried to lecture Republican lawmakers for their near universal opposition to the bill.
“Mr. Chairman, we both went in that restaurant, we both got a steak, neither one of us ought to leave without paying the bill,” stated Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-N.Y.), House Majority Leader. “It wasn’t just you who went and got the steak, we got a steak too and we both have the responsibility to pay for that steak. That’s what this vote is about.”
However, GOP lawmakers decried Democrats for their support for the bill while condemning other provisions that had nothing to do with the state of the U.S. debt.
