President-elect Donald Trump has renewed his calls for the 118th Congress to vote on the debt ceiling before the Biden administration ends on Jan. 20, 2025. The House on Dec. 20 and the Senate on Dec. 21 avoided addressing the impending debt ceiling limit when passing a stopgap funding package to avert a government shutdown. In May 2023, President Joe Biden and then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) raised the debt ceiling and suspended it until Jan. 1, 2025. However, extraordinary measures available to the Treasury Department mean Congress could delay any action to suspend or increase the debt ceiling beyond this deadline by a several more months. “The Democrats must be forced to take a vote on this treacherous issue now, during the Biden Administration, and not in June,” Trump said in a post Sunday night on the Truth Social platform….