Biden says debt limit must be raised because of ‘reckless’ policies under Trump – as it happened

• Biden: Trump administration incurred almost $8tn in additional debt
• President calls Republicans hypocritical' and disgraceful' on debt limit
• Sanders urges progressives to stand firm in battle over Biden agenda
• Trump seeking to elevate Republicans who won't accept Biden victory
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Another piece to the whole debt ceiling todo is the infrastructure bill and the $3.5tn reconciliation bill (also known as the Build Back Better Act).

Republicans have long balked at the amount of spending proposed by the Democrats in each of these key pieces of legislation for the Biden administration and are using them to justify voting against raising the debt limit - they're saying the Democrats are spending too much domestically.