Our budget process is broken. Evidence of that is the fact that we haven't passed a budget in the Senate for 756 days now. And it seems like This administration is assuming that they're just going to automatically get an increase in the debt ceiling. I think that's a very irresponsible assumption. Monday, I went to the floor of the Senate and asked this administration to start laying in a contingency plan, just in case. (00:28–00:34)
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Asserts that the administration assumes an automatic increase in the debt ceiling.
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