Biden: Senate filibuster change on debt a 'real possibility'

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says Democrats are considering a alteration to the Senate’s filibuster rules successful bid to rapidly o.k. lifting the nation’s indebtedness limit.

Biden told reporters precocious Tuesday astatine the White House, “It’s a existent possibility.”

The president's off-the-cuff remarks interject a caller urgency to an progressively uncertain situation.

Days earlier an Oct. 18 deadline to act, the Senate is tangled successful a unsafe partisan standoff implicit a ballot that’s needed to let the national authorities to proceed borrowing oregon hazard defaulting connected its already accrued indebtedness load.

Republicans person said they volition not ballot to rise the indebtedness ceiling. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Democrats tin rise the indebtedness ceiling unsocial done reconciliation.

"They person the clip to bash it. And the sooner they get astir it, the better," McConnell was quoted by Reuters.

Democrats reason the reconciliation process volition instrumentality excessively long.

The Senate is scheduled to ballot to suspend the indebtedness ceiling connected Wednesday.