step up and raise the debt ceiling. >> it's clear it's a straight up dereliction of duty. the thing is mitch mcconnell doesn't care what happens to americans. he sees an opportunity for democrats to go at out alone so that he can run ads against them and get that senate majority leader gavel back. that is really all he cares about. we already saw the beginning of it today with republicans says that this was a consequence of a liberal spending spree. that's a flatout lie. part of the reason congress needs to raise the debt ceiling is to pay for the previous bipartisan covid relief bill passed when donald trump was president. not to mention the fact that democrats helped republicans to raise the debt ceiling under trump. in fact, republicans dear leader increased the debt by 7.8 trillion with a t dollars including by jamming through a $1.5 trillion with a t tax cut