Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of the House, is one of the 55 Democrats who are co-sponsoring the measure.
House Democrats should “vote to raise the debt ceiling under Trump only if we have a permanent elimination” of it,.
Boyle told NBC News, or if there is a change that would essentially negate it, such as his measure, which would give the president the authority to do so without a vote from Congress.
He would not rule out the possibility of included it in a bill for government financing. Boyle said, “I would have to take into account all of the other issues involved in order to include this in the CR.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, also expressed her support for Trump’s proposal to do away with the debt limit on social media Thursday morning.
“I agree with President-elect Trump that Congress should terminate the debt limit and never again govern by hostage taking,” she said.
In addition to confirming his administration’s staff in the Senate, the president-elect seems to be aware of the legislative backlog that awaits him in the first year of his second term:
Plans to advance significant party-line legislation on immigration and taxes, a debt limit hike, and another round of government funding.
