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Following the quick crumple of a proposed House compromise to reopen the federal government and prolong the debt ceiling, Senator John McCain (R-AZ), who has been essential of the method to attempt to defund of Obamacare, strongly encouraged Republicans to prevent the standoff.
“It’s very, very severe,” McCain told the New York Instances. “Republicans have to take into account we’ve got lost this fight, as I estimated weeks ago, that we’d now not have the ability to win as a result of we were demanding something that used to be no longer plausible.”
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The Home plan echoed the dates in a proposed Senate compromise—funding the federal government through January 15 and elevating the debt ceiling except early February—but unraveled Tuesday night as House Speaker John Boehner was unable to discover a version that might fulfill the conservatives in his caucus but additionally acquire approval in the Senate.
On Tuesday evening, the rankings agency Fitch put the USA on a “terrible ratings watch,” warning that “political brinkmanship and diminished financing flexibility might elevate the chance of a U.S. default.”
[h/t TPM]
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