The installed Resident at the White House was given the orders to ram his spending agenda down the throat of USA or destroy us financially. Either option being the goal to destroy as he's headed down the path of letting USA default on its loans. This is a hostage situation and we're all the hostages with no one to help us. I can imagine that idiot laughing in response to reporters questions just like he does with other serious questions and he'll blame Republicans for not kneeling on command. https://thepatriotjournal.com/joe-biden-economy-debt-ceiling. "During a portion of an interview with NPR released on Thursday, White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients stated that President Joe Biden won’t negotiate over spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling with Republicans in Congress like Biden did when he was part of the Obama administration in 2011 because “brinksmanship” “had major impacts on the economy, on families across the country. And we’re not doing that again.”