House Republicans reject unconditional debt ceiling increase

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House Republicans reject unconditional debt ceiling increase

After renewing the PATRIOT Act, I wouldn’t be surprised if you began to doubt all that wonderful GOP campaign rhetoric from last November.

Perhaps there’s hope: The House defeated “their own proposal for a $2.4 trillion increase in the nation’s debt limit Tuesday,” 318-97. Which means that even some Democrats voted no.

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This signals their seriousness that they’ll only raise the federal debt ceiling if the bill includes $1 trillion in spending cuts…so they say right now.

Why raise the debt ceiling at all?

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