Pelosi Rips GOP for Threatening Not to Vote for Debt Ceiling Increase: ‘Irresponsible Beyond Words’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is blasting Congressional Republicans for threatening to vote against suspending the debt ceiling.

During an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Pelosi was asked about Congressional Republicans’ warning that they will not vote to extend the debt limit and avoid default.

“Isn’t that irresponsible beyond words? The full faith and credit of the United States should not be questioned. That’s in the Constitution of the United States, 14th Amendment, go look at that,” she responded.

She noted that Congressional Democrats voted to lift the debt ceiling three times under former President Donald Trump. Additionally, she recalled that the country’s credit rating was downgraded in 2011 after a debate around the debt ceiling.

Pelosi defended planning to hold a separate vote on the debt ceiling because “we want this to be bipartisan.”

“If we didn’t want it to be bipartisan, we would have put it in the reconciliation bill. That would have been a decision we had to make when we wrote the budget act. But nonetheless, the decision was made that it would always be bipartisan,” she explained.

Finally, Pelosi said, “This beyond a big deal. So, let’s hope that the Republicans, enough of them, will find some level of responsibility to our country to honor what’s in the Constitution that we not question the full faith and credit of the United States of America.”

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