“Speaker Kevin McCarthy unveiled a 320-page debt limit bill on Wednesday — and conservatives are taking a victory lap, including some hardliners who nearly derailed his bid for the speakership three months ago,” Semafor reports.
Said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL): “If you held this plan and the plan that the House Freedom Caucus laid out some weeks ago and held them up to a lamp, you would see a lot of alignment The leadership just picked up the House Freedom Caucus plan, and helped us convert it into legislative text.”
Meanwhile, Punchbowl News notes most moderate Senate Republicans said they oppose a clean debt ceiling hike.
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