Navigating the Debt Ceiling: Schumer's Procedural Tactics Prevail.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer used procedural tactics to speed up the passage of the debt ceiling bill and outfox conservative senators seeking to delay it. Schumer kept the Senate officially in session all evening Wednesday, allowing him to put the bill on the Senate's calendar for a future vote as soon as the House passed the measure in a bipartisan 314-117 vote. The bill suspends the debt ceiling until after the 2024 presidential election in exchange for a near freeze in domestic spending and no repeal of Trump-era tax cuts for corporations and the ultra-wealthy.