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House Republicans Make Changes to Debt Limit Bill

House GOP leaders caved in the middle of the night to demands for changes to their debt limit measure, baking in three pages of tweaks as they scramble to whip the package.

The concessions came after 2 a.m., as the House Rules Committee teed up floor debate on the legislation Speaker Kevin McCarthy has vowed to pass this week to stake House Republicans’ opening offer for raising the nation’s borrowing cap to save the U.S. from defaulting on its $31.4 trillion in debt this summer.

After McCarthy and Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) insisted no changes would be made to appease holdouts threatening to oppose the bill, the Republican leaders ultimately acquiesced to major alterations to the text.

Read the source article at politico.com

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