Republicans Balk at Plan to Lift Debt Ceiling

“A plan was percolating to attach a debt limit fix to the annual defense policy measure and move them together to check off two items off the legislative to-do list, but Republicans are saying no way, warning that the move would endanger the defense bill,” Politico reports.

“The tandem approach was intended to end the partisan standoff in which Senate Republicans are refusing to help Democrats adjust the nation’s borrowing limit.”