Thune soft-pedals adding Trump’s request for debt limit curveball to GOP budget bill
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) raised doubts Tuesday on whether there was sufficient GOP support for President Donald Trump’s push to lift the debt ceiling through the latest party-line spending proposal. Thune told reporters that adding a provision to lift the borrowing cap would complicate the already narrow math for passing the $95 billion […]
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- • Senate Majority Leader John Thune is hesitant to include Donald Trump's debt limit increase in the GOP budget reconciliation bill due to narrow voting margins.
- • The proposal seeks to raise the borrowing cap by as much as $5 trillion to streamline the legislative process.
- • Conservative senators like Rand Paul demand deep spending cuts as a prerequisite for supporting any debt ceiling expansion.
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