Trump frustrated with GOP lawmakers over debt limit quandary

Source: The Hill

President-elect Trump wants congressional Republicans to figure out a way to avoid a default on the national debt after venting his frustration with the Senate GOP over its failure to raise the debt limit as part of a government funding package last month. Trump told Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) at a recent meeting that it’s now up to him to find a way around the debt limit impasse, according to a Republican source familiar with the conversation.

“The debt limit came up. He’s very unhappy that that’s hanging out there, and he made it Thune’s problem. He said, ‘John, I don’t know how you’re going to solve this problem, but you’re going to figure out some way,’” a GOP senator who attended the meeting said.
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Trump urged House Republicans last month to vote for a stopgap funding measure bundled with disaster relief and economic aid to farms that also included — at his insistence — a proposal to extend the debt limit past the 2026 midterm election.

And he vented his fury when conservatives in both chambers — including Texas Rep. Chip Roy (R) and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R) — balked at voting for any debt limit legislation that did not include substantial spending cuts to offset the impact on the federal debt.

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