Scalise denies GOP leaders held anti-ATF pistol brace bill hostage to secure votes for debt ceiling increase
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House GOP leader Steve Scalise denied that leadership threatened to hold an anti-ATF pistol brace bill hostage to secure votes to raise the debt ceiling.
Clyde's resolution would overturn the new Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) rule regulating pistols with stabilizing braces as short-barreled rifles, which opens up otherwise lawful gun owners to severe fines or imprisonment if they fail to register their stabilizing brace accessories with ATF. Chris Pandolfo is a writer for Fox News Digital. Send tips to chris.pandolfo@fox.com and follow him on Twitter @ChrisCPandolfo.
The debt deal, negotiated between President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was a widely unpopular compromise on Capitol Hill, called a "turd sandwich" by Clyde's Freedom Caucus colleague Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. Clyde alleged Republican House leaders held his resolution hostage to secure his vote for the debt deal to overcome a procedural hurdle.