Republicans are generally united behind McCarthy’s attempts to force Biden to negotiate spending cuts to raise the debt ceiling, but their position has been blunted by the GOP’s failure to coalesce around a budget blueprint to counter Biden’s proposal.
, including the bill’s co-sponsor who said some of the amendments were unacceptable.
To help project a united front, Rep. Garret Graves , who played a central part in negotiations to secure the gavel for McCarthy, has taken a key role in getting the various factions of the conference behind McCarthy’s negotiating tactics. And Republicans across the conference insist that the increase in cross-ideological conversations that accompanied the tense Speaker’s race have only helped them tackle other issues since then.
Treasury Department officials have said the agency could hit that cap as early as June, requiring congressional action before then to prevent a default. But as Congress left Washington for the two-week break, the sides were nowhere near a deal. And McCarthy has said the next move from Republicans could be to introduce a debt ceiling proposal unilaterally, without negotiating with Biden.
But corralling Republicans behind any fiscal plan with black-and-white specifics could be tricky, particularly as party leaders seek enormous spending cuts while simultaneously taking some of the biggest-ticket items — including Social Security, Medicare, the Pentagon and tax hikes — off the table.
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