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President Joe Biden is desperately maneuvering to avoid any serious spending restraints in debt-limit talks, but voters clearly don’t want the ceiling raised without cuts.
A new CNN poll (yes, left-leaning CNN) shows 60% of Americans oppose raising the debt ceiling unless federal spending is reduced.
That includes 58% of independents and even 45% of Democrats.
Only 24% — less than a quarter — think Congress should lift the ceiling “no matter what,” as Biden & Co. have demanded.
Americans know it’s spending that drives up debt. And that spending is out of control — now at its highest, as a share of the economy, since World War II.
Under Biden, Democrats added trillions in new outlays.
The result: more debt, runaway inflation and Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes that are wreaking havoc on the economy.
Voters understand the whole point of a debt “ceiling” is to force a discussion on spending.
