House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) kept the door wide open Thursday to foregoing a deficit reduction plan and giving President Obama the authority to raise the debt limit unilaterally, with no policy strings attached. But pressed on whether this strategy, first proposed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, would pass the House if all else failed, he couldn’t say.
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