Washington (AFP) – Senate Democrats are expected to be thwarted Wednesday in a vote to overcome a Republican roadblock on suspending the US debt limit — with just 12 days to avoid a cataclysmic credit default. The vote, a procedural hurdle for moving forward on House-passed legislation to lift the debt ceiling, needs 60 to pass, but the 50 opposition Republicans in the evenly-divided Senate are expected to block it. Chuck Schumer, the chamber’s Democratic leader, appealed Tuesday for senators on the other side of the aisle to show they don’t have to “link, arm in arm with those extreme member…

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