WASHINGTON — “Congress must act.”
That has been the daily refrain on raising the debt ceiling for months from White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. In fact, she warned reporters earlier this month she sounded like a “broken record” after saying three times during a May 2 briefing that “Congress must act,” a phrase she has repeated over and over since.
That changed this week as the country careened toward a federal debt default that could occur, shy of a deal, on or around June 1.
