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winetourdriver01

(1,154 posts) Sat Mar 11, 2023, 05:37 PM Mar 2023

House Freedom Caucus Says It'll 'Consider' Helping Raise Debt Limit

Congress needs to pass a budget. It also needs to lift the debt ceiling. For months, the particulars of the coming clashes were fuzzy.

Those two must-pass items are on distinct, but parallel tracks, particularly as Republicans threaten to withhold their votes to lift the debt ceiling unless President Joe Biden forks over political concessions. The White House has insisted that the issues be handled separately, while Republicans struggle to coalesce their caucus behind the basic parameters of what those demands would be.

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