There are growing fears the U.S. could see a repeat of the 2011 government shutdown.
In the letter they argued:"Our nation's fiscal policy is a disaster. Our country owes $31 trillion, a level of debt that now well exceeds the size of our economy. Inflation is making life more expensive for American families every single day.
"Meanwhile, your administration is directing federal agencies to continue to spend billions in taxpayers resources, expanding the size and score of the IRS to go after families and small businesses, policing the speech of Americans on social media, funding equity programs in the military, and pouring money into programs for a pandemic that your administration has declared over."
The debt ceiling row is raising fears of the 2011 government shutdown being repeated, when around 800,000 federal employees were forced to take unpaid leave during a confrontation between the Obama administration and a Republican controlled House. In response, ratings agency Standard & Poor stripped the U.S. of its converted AAA credit rating.
Speaking on Thursday, President Biden vowed to avoid a repeat, commenting:"In the United States of America, we pay our debts."
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