WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s fellow Democrats will seek to head off both a government shutdown and a potentially economically crippling U.S. credit default on Tuesday while also trying to agree on a mammoth tax and spending package for his ambitious social policy agenda.
Senate Democrats had hoped to avoid a partial government shutdown and to suspend the federal debt ceiling with a single vote. But they were blocked on Monday by Republicans, who have offered broad opposition to Democratic legislative priorities and said the two matters should be dealt with separately.
