WASHINGTON, D.C.—PPI President Will Marshall released the following statement on the House’s impending vote on increasing the debt limit:
Speaker Boehner’s decision to bring a ‘clean’ debt limit increase to the House floor this evening is a welcome if belated concession to political reality. It acknowledges President Obama’s point that raising the debt limit doesn’t enable new spending, but only ensures that America honors the bills it’s already agreed to pay. And it’s an unmistakable repudiation of the Tea Party’s destructive fiscal brinkmanship over the last several years.
“Nonetheless, the Speaker still must find enough Republican votes to get the debt ceiling increase through the House. A failure will call into question both Boehner’s ability to lead the House majority and the Republican Party’s willingness to put partisanship aside and govern in the national interest.”
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