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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged her colleagues in Congress to act on raising the debt ceiling on Wednesday, disputing the criticism that Democrats want to spend more money and instead blaming former President Trump for the debt the US government accrued over his four years in office.
During her weekly news conference Pelosi was asked about a letter sent to Congressional leaders from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen this morning.
Yellen warned the US government will run out of money at some point in October unless Congress acts to increase the federal borrowing limit.
'People say, 'oh you just want to spend money',' Pelosi said in a dig at Republicans opposed to raising the debt ceiling.
'No, this is - we're paying the credit card, the Trump credit card, with what we would do to lift the debt ceiling.'
She pointed out that the Trump administration amassed $7 trillion in debt over four years.
Speaker Pelosi said the debt ceiling needs to be raised in order to pay off $7 trillion the Trump administration spent during his time in office
She accused Trump of using the federal government as his own 'credit card'
'When President Trump was president, we Democrats supported lifting the debt ceiling because it's the responsible thing to
