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Political science’s Justin Buchler weighs in on Congressional clash over debt ceiling proposal

Why Democrats don’t want to lift the debt ceiling using reconciliation

Newsweek: Justin Buchler, associate professor of political science, weighed in on the Congressional “partisan gamesmanship” tying up a proposal to lift the debt ceiling to avoid default on U.S. debt. “This is political malpractice of the highest order, malice in the case of Republicans,” he said, “and short-sightedness in the case of Democrats.”