The heads of state and government announced on Wednesday afternoon that MPs. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Ed Case (D-Hawaii) joined 211 Democrats when signing the action.
However, the Democrats need the support of at least five Republicans in the House of Representatives for the effort to be successful.
If a majority in the House of Commons backs the effort, Democrats could force a vote on legislation raising the debt ceiling.
“We’re five signatures short,” said Rep. Pete Aguilar (California), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. “So for our fellow Republicans who are giving interviews and going home and talking about how they want to work together and talking about how they’re not as extreme as Marjorie Taylor Greene and that she’s not speaking for them — this is her opportunity.” .”
“It takes a handful of members of the GOP to say, ‘Enough,'” Democrat Katherine Clark (Massachusetts) told reporters in the Capitol.
But Democrats face a major challenge in garnering the necessary GOP support for the plan, especially as a party locks arms behind Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) amid tense debt limit negotiations with the White House.
“We’re not even close to that” Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), co-chair of the centrist Problem Solvers Caucus, said last week.
“We have already created a framework and the Senate has not acted. Therefore, the House of Representatives cannot move on to Step 3 until at least Step 1 has been passed. So the dismissal request is off the table,” he added.
Mike Lillis from The Hill has more here.
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