Sperling said that House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) passing a bill to boost the debt limit “doesn’t give him or really anyone the correct to say that we wish to have a discussion where it’s either my way or we’ll put the USA in default for the primary time in our history. And I can’t emphasize enough how necessary it’s to grasp that saying that you must negotiate on raising the debt is a sanitized way of claiming that you must tell your complete country that if you happen to don’t get your budget, your policy goals, you’ll put the USA in default for the primary time in our history and potentially cause a serious recession. Nobody should do this, let me be clear, not Democrat or Republican, not liberal or conservative. And since 2011, everyone has understood this.”