Republicans in the Senate have shown very little inclination to get involved in the debt ceiling deadlock that is threatening to unleash fiscal havoc on the country.

Late last year, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was angered after over a dozen Republicans in the Senate went along with an omnibus spending package instead of delaying a vote until the GOP reclaimed the House. This go around, there appears to be little appetite among Senate Republicans to cross him.

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"Republicans, we in the Senate, stand with the House. We have our point of view. Time for the president to step in and say his point of view and do a deal," Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) told reporters.

Romney was among the Republicans who approved the $1.7 trillion omnibus package late last year. At the time of that vote, the House GOP was gripped by chaos as it was unclear if McCarthy could secure enough votes to become speaker or if he could handle House GOP defections.

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) was candid about his misgivings over the House GOP's behavior, but ultimately voted against the spending package. Cramer has largely taken the party line publicly on the debt ceiling stalemate, bashing President Joe Biden over his refusal to sit down and hash out his differences with McCarthy.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) seemingly deferred to McCarthy on the debt ceiling back in January. Publicly, he has ripped Biden for not budging and largely refrained from criticizing McCarthy, though he recently emphasized that the Limit, Save, Grow Act was a nonstarter in the Senate.

“Regardless of whether the House passes this measure or doesn’t, I want to disabuse any of you of the notion that there is any measure clearing the Senate with 60 votes that could be approved by this House, is essentially zero,” McConnell recently told reporters.

"This agreement must be reached because we must never default. The agreement needs to be reached between the Speaker and the President," said McConnell.

McCarthy managed to wrangle through the Limit, Save, Grow Act as his plan to raise the limit on the nation's borrowing authority in exchange for a heap of spending cuts, a proposal roundly rejected by Democrats. Biden has been adamant that anything other than a clean debt ceiling bill is unacceptable to him.

The speaker's confidence that the Senate GOP won't rebel against him was on full display this week when he dared Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to bring a debt ceiling measure without strings attached to the Senate floor.

More conservative members of the GOP Senate caucus, such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), have come out strongly in defense of their colleagues in the House, with the Texas Senator likening Biden's behavior to that of a terrorist.

"We need to bring back the Joe Biden who’s done this before. Not the one who is behaving like a terrorist, which is what Biden is doing right now,” Cruz chided. His quip came during a discussion about how Biden was more cooperative with Republicans during the 2011 fiscal standoff.

Even more moderate and traditionally bipartisan members of the Senate GOP conference have largely steered clear of trying to achieve a breakthrough on the debt limit impasse.

"The White House’s refusal to negotiate with the House on the debt limit is delaying work on critical fiscal matters. Now that the House has passed its plan, there is no excuse for the President not to negotiate with Speaker McCarthy. Those discussions should begin without delay," Collins said in a previous statement to the Washington Examiner.

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Her staff was quick to push back against characterizations made last week that her work on the Senate Appropriations Committee with Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-WA) could serve as a contingency plan for the debt limit impasse.

If neither McCarthy nor Biden concedes, the Treasury Department's "extraordinary measures" to prolong funding are projected to run out sometime between June and August, according to various estimates. McCarthy and Biden last met in February.