Without Obamacare Delay and Keystone Approval
With the President delaying, again, parts of Obamacare, House Republican Leader Eric Cantor and Speaker John Boehner have declared they will not raise the debt ceiling unless the President does two things: (1) delay Obamacare by a year and (2) approve the Keystone XL Pipeline.
In fact, Congressman Paul Ryan is standing shoulder to shoulder with them, telling Robert Costa, “Shutting down the government puts us on the wrong side. The fight is on the debt limit”. Further, the GOP won’t even bother fighting on a continuing resolution because they feel so strongly the debt ceiling is the path forward for a fight on Obamacare and the Keystone XL pipeline.
Senator John Cornyn has even gone so far as to say the GOP might need to shut down the government to force Barack Obama’s hand in debt ceiling negotiations. There’s just one major caveat to their plan.
But first, back to the House of Representatives. As Jonathan Strong notes in his article
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In fact, Congressman Paul Ryan is standing shoulder to shoulder with them, telling Robert Costa, “Shutting down the government puts us on the wrong side. The fight is on the debt limit”. Further, the GOP won’t even bother fighting on a continuing resolution because they feel so strongly the debt ceiling is the path forward for a fight on Obamacare and the Keystone XL pipeline.
Senator John Cornyn has even gone so far as to say the GOP might need to shut down the government to force Barack Obama’s hand in debt ceiling negotiations. There’s just one major caveat to their plan.
But first, back to the House of Representatives. As Jonathan Strong notes in his article
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