If Republicans want a default, Dems should give it to them

Just because a party is in the minority, that doesn’t mean it has given up its responsibility to govern

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A few weeks ago, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) declared that his Republican caucus would not support raising the debt ceiling for US government debt. A failure to raise the…