TomFoolery said:
Don't democrats have the votes to just raise the debt ceiling if they made it stand alone? I thought that was one of the things that couldn't be filibustered.
Yes, but they're hoping to use the vote on it to end the filibuster if the Republicans block it, which is why they filled it with poison pills.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill