McConnell predicts no Republicans will support raising debt ceiling

Washington — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted Tuesday that no Republican will vote to raise the debt ceiling as Democrats move forward with a sweeping $3.5 trillion package that will include many of President Biden's policies on child care, education and health care.

"I can't imagine a single Republican in this environment that we're in now – this free-for-all for taxes and spending — to vote to raise the debt limit,"McConnell told Punchbowl News in an interview at the Capitol on Tuesday. "I think the answer is they need to put it in the reconciliation bill." A group of Senate Democrats last week reached a deal on the $3.5 trillion package that will encompass components of Mr. Biden's agenda on so-called "human" infrastructure, which the White House wants to move through Congress alongside the smaller, more targeted $600 billion bipartisan infrastructure framework.