Republican Leaders Will Pick Yet Another Debt Ceiling Fight | Talking Points Memo

Republicans are gearing up to pick yet another fight on the debt ceiling.

Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) office on Wednesday signaled another standoff after Treasury Secretary Jack Lew wrote a letter saying Congress will have to act by “late February” — sooner than expected — to raise the borrowing limit in order to avoid a potentially catastrophic default on U.S. debt.


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