Democrats Should Raise The Debt Ceiling Now

Eric Medlin
3 min readOct 6, 2021

They need to get away from this issue.

Joe Biden giving a speech on raising the debt ceiling. Source: Reuters

After several months of relative harmony in early 2021, it seems as though Democrats are once again in disarray. The protracted conflict over infrastructure and reconciliation bills is nothing new. In recent weeks, raising the debt ceiling has been added to this list of issues. Democrats cannot come together to agree on how exactly they want to raise…

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Eric Medlin

I’m a writer interested in the intersections of history, ideas, and politics. I publish every week. www.twitter.com/medlinwrites