John Boehner: Conservative groups’ attacks on budget deal ‘step over the line’

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House Speaker John Boehner has amped up his war of words with outside conservative groups, saying their attacks on the bipartisan budget deal “step over the line” and that the groups have “lost all credibility.”

“When groups come out and criticize an agreement that they’ve never seen, you begin to wonder just how credible those actions are,” the Ohio Republican said Thursday during his weekly briefing with the media.

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