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No, they don’t care. It’s merely a political weapon they use to hurt their opposition. There’s no strategy beyond signaling to their base.

It wouldn’t work if the Democrats didn’t want to spend an infinite amount of money.

How many times was the debt limit raised or suspended under the last republican administration (or the one before that, or the one before that…).

Or how about this one, who raised the debt limit more? Reagan or Obama? Fun fact, that would be Reagan.

Perhaps this isn’t a partisan issue.