Schumer rejects House debt ceiling bill, plans hearings to ‘expose’ GOP’s ‘reckless legislation’
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House Republicans passed their debt limit bill with no Democratic support in a Wednesday evening vote last week, but Schumer has said it is "dead on arrival" in the Senate.
He said the Senate Budget Committee would start with a Thursday hearing on the GOP bill, and encouraged Democrast to "make clear how devastating this proposal truly is to your constituents through public events and press." Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital.
The Limit, Save, Grow Act passed the House with no Democratic support in a Wednesday evening vote last week. In addition to raising the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion or through March 2024 – whichever benchmark is hit first – it would also return federal discretionary spending levels to those seen in 2022.
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