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House Republican leadership, under pressure from more conservative members of their caucus, last month reneged on the August debt deal and announced that they would cut more spending than was agreed to in the Budget Control Act that raised the debt ceiling. Senate Democrats were incensed, telling the GOP that its plan risked a government [...]
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After months of partisan wrangling and GOP threats to let the U.S. default for the first time in history, Democrats and Republicans reached a budget deal in August to raise the nation’s debt ceiling. As Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) h... Read Post

John Boehner and Eric Cantor ready to renege. The signals have been being sent for weeks that House Republicans were ready to threaten, again, a government shutdown by reneging on the budget deal they agreed to last August during th... Read Post

The House Republican budget, as the GOP has been hinting it would, reneges on the deal made to avoid a debt ceiling calamity back in August. The bill to raise the debt ceiling, known as the Budget Control Act, set a level for discre... Read Post