Conservatives balk at proposed debt limit, budget deal

Published July 22, 2019 9:43pm ET



House Republicans won’t vote for a proposed bipartisan deal to suspend the nation’s borrowing limit until 2021 and raise spending caps by $320 billion over two years, a top GOP lawmaker said Monday.

“I have communicated consistently there will be a large number of conservatives in the House who will not be able to vote for the deal, if these are indeed the terms,” Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., head of the Republican Study Committee, told the Washington Examiner Monday.

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