Trump's demand to abolish debt ceiling hits a brick wall

Donald Trump's idea of abolishing the debt limit is foundering on Capitol Hill as Democrats line up against it and Republicans uncomfortably try to shoot it down without angering the president-elect.

Democrats would be Trump's most likely partners in eliminating the debt ceiling " an idea that has long been palatable in Democratic circles.

But while a handful of Democrats have endorsed his approach, the party's official line is that anything but their deal with Johnson is a non-starter.

Many lawmakers are also seizing on Trump policy plans that would raise the deficit " particularly his proposed tax cuts " to justify their opposition.

What they're saying: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) set the tone Thursday with a social media post saying "hard pass" on even raising the debt ceiling, let alone eliminating it.

"In order to give massive endless tax cuts to Elon Musk and other billionaire oligarchs? I don't know " there might be some wariness to that," Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said of scrapping the debt limit."

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