Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma said on Thursday that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer used the debt limit as leverage against the Trump-endorsed plan.
During an appearance on Laura Ingraham’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Mullin criticized Schumer for allegedly manipulating the debt ceiling negotiations to undermine President-elect Donald Trump’s influence. Mullin also criticized the House Republican members who helped tank the spending bill.
“What he’s wanting to do is put it as part of reconciliation. What he doesn’t realize is that Schumer is wanting to hold the debt limit over President Trump’s head to negotiate on reconciliation because the Republicans in the Senate cannot pass reconciliation without having Democrat support because it takes 60 votes. We can’t do it with just 51, we have to have 60,” Mullin told Ingraham when asked about…
