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> is using the threat of default to try to get spending concessions

I mean McCarthy went on the record to say "We won't default". That's like .. the opposite of a threat.

It's so weird to me how Democrats keep thinking there's actually a possibility of a default, while every moderate and Republican knows very well there is zero possibility of it.

There must be something in the mentality of how people view the world that causes this correlation.