Republican strategy on debt ceiling takes shape

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Source: The Hill

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) vowed Tuesday to attach legislation raising the debt limit to a Hurricane Harvey relief bill the House is expected to approve on Wednesday, setting up a confrontation among Republicans in Congress.

Cornyn said Congress has no choice but to raise the debt ceiling now given the need for help in his home state, the escalating costs and the government’s diminishing coffers.

“It’s imperative that we get that supplemental passed,” Cornyn told reporters.

He said Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had made the decision to tie the debt-limit hike to the Harvey bill.

“And the leader has made the decision to attach the debt limit to that, and I support that,” Cornyn said.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/349342-republican-strategy-on-debt-ceiling-takes-shape

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Make no mistake about there intent----------------------they want social security and medicare on the table to off set, there Bullsh*t

[Iliyah]

1. I truly see a governmental shutdown.

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2. As Raphael Cruz and Cornyn show, Texans are fiercely independent, with their begging hand out.

As Raphael Cruz and Cornyn show, Texans are fiercely independent, with their begging hand out.

They want others to stand on their own two feet, pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

For eight years of Obama, republicans whined about deficit spending but now that they have both Houses of Congress and the WH, they show their incompetence and hypocrisy.

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3. and you expected anything less LOL?