Senate GOP Nixes Proposed Debt Limit Fix

“Senate Republicans are rejecting a proposal floated by congressional Democratic leaders to attach a debt limit fix to the annual defense policy measure — typically treated as a must-pass bill,” Politico reports.

“Senior Democrats are discussing combining the two items in a single legislative vehicle in a bid to end their partisan skirmish with upper-chamber Republicans who have refused to help them adjust the nation’s borrowing limit. But the Senate GOP largely poured cold water on the idea Monday and warned that the move would endanger the defense bill.”