How Often Is That Done? Explain a Discharge Petition?

A prolonged impasse over the debt ceiling would cost the US economy up to 6 million jobs, Moody's says. All we know is it would create a huge economic shock of the sort we have not seen before, as we don't really even know. Kevin McCarthy either decides I follow the Freedom Caucus off the cliff of default or I push back against them. And that is the very last thing I will do as a speaker of the House.