Passing a debt limit bill must be the GOP's top priority in the upcoming legislative session, Republican Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern told colleagues.
Former Bain Capital Managing Director Ed Conard discusses the debt limit negotiations and who among the current 2024 GOP field has his support for the upcoming presidential election.session must be passing a debt limit bill and averting a default, Republican Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern, R-Okla., wrote in a letter to colleagues on Wednesday.
"Passage of a strong debt limit bill before the end of the April legislative session must be the chamber’s top priority," Hern wrote to the group, which includes aboutin the House. "We must work night and day to get it passed to show the American people we can be trusted and force the Senate and White House to answer for their dereliction of duty."
The GOP has been locked in a stalemate with the White House and Democrats over the $31.38 trillion debt ceiling, which the U.S. bumped up against earlier this year. The Treasury Department began using "extraordinary measures" in January to avoid defaulting on the national debt, but the federal government is expected toPeople walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
The White House is pushing a clean increase in the debt ceiling without any conditions, while Republicans want cuts to government spending in exchange for the increase.
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