West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin III said President Biden and Republicans should be negotiating the debt ceiling in good faith, saying the debt is unsustainable.
"For two years [afterward] we had basically a reduction in our debt. Then it took back off again," Manchin said."So the right persons are there if they want to talk and make it happen. I don't think we should have theatrics as far as ‘are we going to raise it or not’ – Yes, we will, but we should have also some commitments and obligations."
The senator claimed the U.S. military came to lawmakers and suggested that if a budget had been passed by September 30, there could be 5 to 10% savings in their particular appropriations – saying it had to do with contracts and other related expenditures."The reason for that, it's basically, you know, you're saying you have a contract for someone to come service your electrical equipment or your furnace -- The contract runs out.
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