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>I'm pretty sure that goes both ways depending upon who's in power at the time. Republicans love pork barrel spending just as much as democrats do.

Absolutely. Deficit spending is the problem but moving the ceiling is what matters. The point of the ceiling to force politicians to be fiscally responsible.

If neither of them could move the ceiling. Then when they hit the ceiling, they now have to start figuring out what spending to cut. They never do that.

>The deficit rose $7.8T while Trump was president, yet the democrats get blamed for raising the debt ceiling.

Politicians sure like spending. Nobody wants to be the politician who cuts and takes blame for the cuts. Then your opponents get back into power after you were fiscally responsible and get to spend and take credit? Why would you fall for that trap? Keep on spending!

Moving the debt ceiling even temporarily should be death to a political party.

Luckily, in the USA this does seem to be the case.