Originally Posted by Demise

Okay lay off the drugs/booze or whatever you're on.

In the senate they need 60 votes to raise the debt ceiling, without that any budget bill is moot. There is 52 republicans in the senate. So they'd need at very least 8 democrats to flip, assuming all republicans fall in line (they won't, they never do).

In the house there's 40ish republicans (freedom caucus and some other small group of deficit hawks) that won't vote for anything without severe spending cuts, and then moderates on the other end would drop out from that. There's 240 Republicans, slightly under 200 is well under the majority cutoff (21.

So whether they like it or not, either they make cuts that will only make the blue wave 20 ft taller, or they break down and give democrats the things they want.