Debt-limit suspension passes house; faces stand-off in Senate

But Democrats want Republicans to share political responsibility for the debt

The Democratic-controlled House passed a bill that would suspend the US debt ceiling into December 2022 and provide the government funding to operate past September 30. Republicans have vowed to block it when it reaches the Senate over the debt limit provision. The measure was approved Tuesday night on a 220 to 211 party-line vote.

The debt ceiling suspension — to December 16, 2022 — is urgently needed because the Treasury Department has warned it could run out of accounting measures to stave off a payment default sometime in October. The debt limit came back into effect in August after a