Centrists float fallback plan if Biden-McCarthy debt limit talks falter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "The American people want more jobs and lower costs, not a death panel for Medicare and Social Security," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told Bloomberg News earlier in the year.
40% : "I'm open to considering opportunities to consider looking at the deficit -- separately -- for the purposes of the fiscal integrity of our nation, for the solvency of Social Security and Medicare," Rep. Jim Costa (D-Calif.), another Problem Solvers member, said.
29% : Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), another Problem Solvers member, said he's hoping McCarthy's strategy will bring Biden to accept some level of discretionary cuts, in the near term, and win the president's support for a fiscal commission to tackle deficit spending -- including funding for Social Security and Medicare -- over a longer window.
21% :The proposal, first reported by Politico, arrives amid an extended impasse between Biden, who is demanding a "clean" debt limit hike without extraneous provisions, and McCarthy, who is warning that Republicans won't raise the government's borrowing cap without the Democrats' commitment to steep cuts in federal spending.

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