House Republicans made changes overnight to their legislation raising the debt ceiling and slashing roughly $4.5 trillion in government spending.
House Republicans made changes overnight to their legislation raising the debt ceiling and slashing roughly $4.5 trillion in government spending, as GOP leaders sought to bring on board a group of holdouts ahead of a vote that could come as soon as Wednesday.
It's unclear whether the changes will assuage enough Republicans to garner the support needed to clear the House, where the GOP maintains a slim majority. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy can only afford up to four defections in order for the bill to pass. But Rep. Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican who repeatedly said he intends to vote against the bill, indicated his position is unchanged. "If you look at this plan and what it does with the debt over the next 10 years, it does not reduce the debt over the next 10 years, which is why I wrote about balancing the budget and how important that is," she told reporters. Tuesday morning that spending should return to 2019 spending levels.
Republicans' legislation claws back unspent federal COVID-19 relief funds, revokes some of the $80 billion for the Internal Revenue Service included in the Inflation Reduction Act and tightens the work requirements for Medicaid and food stamp recipients.
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