WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – One day after the Senate granted a temporary lifting to the U.S. Debt Ceiling ceiling, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell sent a letter to President Joe Biden stating that he wouldn’t aid Democrats in raising the limit again.

Following weeks of partisan fighting, the Senate approved https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-democrats-republicans-haggle-over-short-term-debt-fix-2021-10-07 the short-term fix that will allow the United States to avoid defaulting on its bills in a 50-48 vote on Thursday evening. On Tuesday, the House will vote on this measure.

Congress will have to come up with a more long-term solution by December. McConnell said that the reprieve would allow Democrats sufficient time to increase the debt ceiling via a procedure known as reconciliation. This move has been rejected by Democrats as a way of lifting the cap.

McConnell mentioned comments that Chuck Schumer made Thursday, the Senate floor, in which he said Republicans played a “dangerous partisan game.”

McConnell wrote, “I am writing in order to be clear that in the light of Senator Schumer’s panic and my grave concerns regarding the ways that another huge, reckless, partisan expenditure bill would hurt Americans, help China, and that I won’t be part to any future efforts to mitigate the effects of Democratic mismanagement,” McConnell added.